Mexico 68

Panel Discussion

October 5, 2018

Event Description

Mass protests erupted in Mexico in the summer of 1968. Student activists were joined by workers, farmers, and other groups in taking to the streets and demanding changes to the ruling government’s authoritarian practices. The government’s violent repression of those protests culminated in the Tlatelolco Massacre of October 2 in Mexico City. Fifty years later, Susana Draper and Bruno Bosteels discuss that fateful season.

Speakers

Susana Draper is an associate professor at Princeton University in the Department of Comparative Literature.

Bruno Bosteels is a professor at Colombia University in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. 

Cosponsors

Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.