The Violence Of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

During the 1970’s, Mexican Americans were involved in a large social movement called the "Chicano movement." Corresponding with the great development of the black civil rights movement, Mexican Americans began to take part in a series of different social protests in which they demanded equal rights for themselves. Composed mainly of Mexican American students and youth, these activists focused on maintaining a pride for their culture as well as their ethnicity to fuel their political campaign. Left out of this campaign initially though were Mexican immigrants.

Students organized a peaceful walkout that lasted a couple days, they organized themselves so they could all walk out at the same time, some of this walkouts turned very brutal but even with the police attacking them they did not stop the walkouts, specially when Sal Castro and other leaders were arrested, students got together to raise their voices and make the government see they had rights. After that walkout the government had no more option than to listen to the students and make a fair educational system, by that time bi-lingual education increased 25% and students had more power over the educational

All they wanted was an answer to one question “Where were their children? Their sons and daughters were “missing” and all they were told was” We don’t have any answers! The citizens were afraid, even high authorities of religious groups turned a blind eye. In 1977, with Argentina under a violent military dictatorship, a group of mostly house wives living in a fear oppressed state made a stand and found their voice. They demanded to be heard and while the regime was enforcing their control and power over Argentinians political views through torture and disappearance; a mother’s devotion to her child and the political resistance transformed these mothers into a political force. They are the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who effectively mounted a civil rights movement that forced the top military officials to be charged for their crimes and have sustained an

José de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz Mori, the 29th president of Mexico, opened Mexico to foreign investors and companies who exploited Mexico’s resources such as land, copper, gold, silver, water, and cheap labor for corporate gain. This caused economic instability in the way that Mexico placed power in the hands of large corporations and Mexican politicians.

On September 6, 1901, the 25th president of the United States,William McKinley, was assassinated by an anarchist Leon Czolgosz. He was killed while shaking hands and getting out in the community. Furthermore, Even though Czolgosz lost his job, it doesn’t justify him killing William Mckinley. It isn’t justified because he claimed president Mckinley had too much power, he felt the government was corrupt, and he felt President Mckinley was the head the “corrupt“ government.

Without these women speaking out in 1977, there would have been no initial protest to halt the military in Argentina. To prove this argument, there is a timeline of events that the “Mothers of Plaza De Mayo” triggered. These events were less likely to have happened without the first public protest (Reinbold. 2010). So far, research includes geography, such as where “Plaza De Mayo” is located and where exactly the military ruled and information on the “disappeared” and how it was very dangerous to speak to anyone who had anything negative to say about the military. I also have learned that the armed forces disliked anyone with liberal values and who seemed like they were a threat to their traditional Christian values (Tolerance. N.a. N.d). What I have little knowledge on is why the Government of Argentina was overthrown in the first place and why the military was so aggressive. It is imperative to know what the military was thinking at the time and why they took such a stance against certain people. What was so important to protect that the military had to

The article called, “Walkout: The True Story of the Hispanic 1968 Chicano Student Walkout in East L.A.” by the independent Global News, was an interview for Moctesuma Esparza an award winning film producer and community activist, he is the producer of “Walkout”, a true story in the 1968 in Los Angeles in which he had the privilege to help organize during that time as one of the students, and later on found his passion as a reporter in his successful career. As a consequence of organizing the act of walkouts, he with another 12 other people were under arrested and incarcelated for disturbing the peace. Esparza was an active person in the social civil rights movement of Chicanos by making this movie; he feels blessed to rebirth this social movement

May 2, 1963, touching off a week of non stop violent destruction and rioting that was causing the entire nation to be in shocked. The police force tried to stop them but the children continue to push they way into the march, the children prevailed. As this continues many others join with them to march and protest also many other schools they believed the more come the more it’ll show the police need to stop what they are doing. When it kept continuously growing the police had finally made a move.

There were many events that had been taken place, which were the cause of this movement to be peaked.

In order to continue the keep pressure on the government, La Coordinadora planned to hold a peaceful non-violent demonstration on Feduary 4th. The event was called 'la

The article I chose to read regarding Mexico’s head of government talked about how under Enrique Nieto Pena’s control, his party(The PRI) was responsible for numerous scandals involving graft and corruption. When he first got elected, the nation of Mexico saw drastic declines in homicide rates and unexplained disappearances of large groups of people such as the “Ayotzinapa 43 case”, in which 43 student teachers vanished without a trace, leading people to think they were killed. However, in the next 2 years homicide cases suddenly rose up which caused a lot of controversy leading people to suspect some sort of change to the police force system was present. Enrique was subject to a lot of criticism because he would use members of the PRI for his own interests.

The Global Nonviolent Action Database and Swarthmore College seeks “to provide free access to information about hundreds of cases of nonviolent action for learning and for citizen action.” In the article about the Argentinian students it explains who was involved, the methods taken during the movement, who the students were going against, the goals of the students, and the outcome of the situation. This piece is very helpful when it relates to my topic because it tells everything that happened and exactly when. It also gives a lot of other sources to follow up with and gain more knowledge about the movement.

In order to be completely prepared to start the coup I will need to investigate Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico’s President. This is the president that proposed peace and security for the country, but he has only made things worse. About a week ago 43 college students disappear after the police arrested them during a protest. The people are mad at Pena Nieto and a big crowd is asking him to resign and leave his

Profirio Díaz was the longest reining dictator in Mexican history. He was known to be a hero based on his actions during his time in the military. Díaz also performed many historical processes that helped Mexico but also hurt the civilians or the people living in the country during the process. Díaz’s processes of power during his dictatorship is the reason that caused the Mexican Revolution based on how the political parties rose up against him to remove him from his power and led to the success of the revolution. Díaz’s legacy and actions to fight the power and his reputation as a leader ignited him to be overthrown and to be hated by the people of his country as their source of government.

According to Mexican authorities, June was the deadliest month in at least 20 years with 2,234 recorded murders where the murder rate increased in states Baja California Sur, Veracruz and in Mexico City, relatively insulated from drug cartel violence (Al Jazeera, 2017). Furthermore, reports from Al Jazeera (2017) indicate that the first six months of 2017 saw the recording of 12,155 homicide investigations by authorities nationwide; a 31 percent increase from the 9,300 recorded at the same time last year. This explicit reminder of the undesirable effects of the drug-fueled violence offers a stern warning to Americans entering Mexico for both recreational and business travelers about the expected