The Mexican Student Movement of 1968: A Remembrance With ‘La Nacha’

Oct. 4, 2018

The Mexican Student Movement of 1968: A Remembrance With ‘La Nacha’By: Alan Eladio Gómez and Michelle TéllezOCT 4, 20189:00 AM  “Yo tengo que hablar por ellas, las que ya no viven” January 2018, La NachaLa Nacha When the Mexican military entered the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on September 18, 1968, Ana Ignacia Rodríguez Márquez, along with 42 other female students, was detained and transported to a men’s prison located in the northeastern part of Mexico City, known as the Black Palace of Lecumberri, where she was interrogated —without reprieve— and released 72 hours later.  Her arrest came at the...