Mexico 68. October 2, is not Forgotten!

Curated by Rogelio Villarreal In the 1960s, young people in many parts of the world expressed their inconformity against the prevailing order and sought new freedom and ways of being. Although the student rebellion broke out in a peculiar way in Mexico, it managed to consolidate itself as a true movement. A year synonymous with the student movement, 1968 in Mexico was a time of protest marches, rock music, placards, the army and special police forces, the granaderos, the supposed communist threat, the 19th Olympics, the massacre at Tlatelolco, society’s response, political prisoners and the missing, the rallying cry of “October 2, Is Not Forgotten!