VOICES AGAINST FORGET. HYDALGUENS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE 1968 STUDENT-POPULAR MOVEMENT IN MEXICO

Abstract

The general objective of this work is to know, through the methodology of Oral History, the testimony of State Hidalgo’s participants (Mexico) in the Student-Popular Movement of 1968, with the purpose of approaching to fill a historical gap in the registry the estudiantil participation of the federative entities. The methodology of Oral History allows us to approach the subjectivity of social subjects, as individuals, as part of a community or in relation to an event of social significance, in this case the Mexican 68, whose outcome, the 2 Octobre 2 massacre in the Three’s Plaza Cultures, in Tlatelolco. Mexico City was a repression whose death toll has not been quantified until today (2019). On the other hand, the versión was extended that the participants, the most, had been UNAM’s students and to a lesser extent of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN). The participation of students or people from other entities is still poorly studied. However, works are already known about Sinaloa, Sonora, Puebla and Oaxaca. In this work it was posible to interview five people from Hidalgo: four students and a housewife. The five related, from the role they played then, how they lived the most important social movement in Mexico afther the Mexican Revolution. The interview as one of the research tecniques of the Oral History methodology, showed its relevance to achieve the proposed objective. The results were the visibility of actors and unfmailiar events. The path open with this work is capable of deepening and registering other actors involved in the Mexican 68.