Four decades later, around the October 2, 1968 will bring together two groups. On the one hand, those who still feel aggrieved by the events of that gloomy afternoon. Furthermore, those who doubt the libertarian and democratic heritage of the student movement. And in the middle of both, a third sheds light in understanding the significance of what happened four decades ago.
Luis Hernández Navarro speaks of the "131 Days That Shook to Mexico" and gives this period the epithet of "social earthquake urban. "Blanche Petrich analyzes the role played by the " Newspapers Sold! " during the summer and autumn of 1968.
Enrique Krauze calls attention on the beatification uncritical of the student movement and calls demystify it. Armando González Torres, meanwhile, highlights the dichotomy in which 68 Mexican beats "recalls a party atmosphere and subversive jokes, but also temptations of violence, refers to novel ideas and concepts, but also the chatter and childish. "
For Jose Woldenberg what happened in 1968 was a slaughter and reason for the split between the government and a large segment of the middle class "enlightened" motor further democratizing the country changes. Lorenzo Meyer says that, to date, "we are still denied basic information" about the victims, those responsible for acts and omissions, the reasons and methods.
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