Elena Poniatowska

1968 was a year of student revolts in many places, but as Elena Poniatowska reminds us in her 68th prologue by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, the only city in which they massacred hundreds of people was Mexico. The chapters in the book are short, in them we know how everything was created: "We lived surrounded by the magic of the Cuban revolution and the Vietnamese resistance", but also stunned by the death of Che, and drunk with cinema, music and poetry. The protagonists did not surpass the circle of a dozen of university schools and faculties, and militated in all the tendencies of the extreme left, although they did not know much of the real working class.
July 26, Friday, is when the movement explodes. Thousands of young people demonstrate in