The student massacre in Mexico
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
Mexican anti-communism is particularly reflected in the student repressions and the extermination of revolutionary guerrilla groups in the sixties and seventies of the last century, although it prevails against some symbolic rural guerrillas such as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. The student massacres were oriented by the fight against communism, the fight against the Soviets was financed by the United States in satellite governments such as the PRI regime. However, it is necessary not to lose sight of the climate of opinion and culture determined by actors such as the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) where the membership of various actors in the Mexican political system is recognized. The WACL now persists in organizations such as the World League for Freedom and Democracy or the Conservative Political Action Conference, and maintains Nazi rhetoric coming from Eastern Europe. The religious and neoliberal right flows as if the Soviet Union were everywhere.
Within the multiple hypotheses that articulate what happened in the Tlatelolco Massacre, some configure the intervention against the presidential succession, or the insertion of a ruler more than linked to the geopolitics of the United States. The truth is that, despite the radical distinction between the six-year terms of Díaz Ordaz and Echeverría, both characters were affiliated with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and were unceremoniously subject to what the White House imposed in Mexico. From a distance, both actors supported Washington.
How much does US-led anti-communism persist in our country? What are the true possibilities of geopolitical sovereignty of the Mexican Republic?
Antonio Velasco Piña interpreted the tragedy as a sacrifice that motivated the spiritual awakening of Mexicans; Probably the students of '68 constitute another grain of sand in the search for national freedom. The student massacre can also be seen as an indispensable sacrifice to stop the arbitrariness of the Aztec chief called the United States who, like his Nazi friends, never tires of asking for blood.