The Mexican Movement of 1968

The program brings together a series of Mexican and Spanish films that deal with the ‎various youth and countercultural manifestations that awoke the world at the end of the ‎‎1960s. ‎

The year 1968 is a turning point for many countries that experienced the effects of the ‎desire for revolution. The young generation born after World War II felt uncommitted to ‎the historical debt to those events. The student movements that flourished in most of the ‎major European and American cities gave proof of the need to achieve social and ‎political change demanded by young people and supported by a myriad of political ‎profiles.‎

The Mexican case was especially painful because the students and social claims that ‎arouse since the spring of 1968 were violently suppressed by the state forces that ended ‎in what is known as the Tlatelolco massacre. On October 2, more than three hundred ‎people lost their lives by the army forces. This bloody response volatilized the desire for ‎change and led to the start of the Olympics in Mexico. They took place between October ‎‎12 and 27 and, consequently, Mexico was visited by athletes from all over the world.‎‎