Baja California and its guerrilleros in the seventies.

Abstract

At the end of the 1960s, Mexican society suffered from the overwhelming weight of an authoritarian and repressive system over their lives, which on many occasions drowned in blood the legitimate desires of its population for political participation. This situation caused countless demonstrations ranging from peaceful protest to taking up arms, especially after acts of extreme cruelty, such as the Tlatelolco Massacre in 1968, with which the regime clearly showed its nature. Throughout the country, young people, at a time when youth worldwide were promoting a countercultural and values revolution, were petrified of fear or assumed radical practices of violent struggle to confront extreme institutional violence, in tune with the ideals of the time, who considered utopia possible. Many lost their lives, but contributed significantly, alongside those who with peaceful methods stoically confronted institutional barbarism, and ended up transforming the political life of the nation towards more civilized forms of expression. This political history work analyzes the relationship and mutual determination between the actors of the so-called regional histories and national history, intending to contribute to the knowledge of what we are today as a nation.