Dirty War (Mexico)

Dirty War
Part of the Cold War
Mexican Army soldiers in the streets during the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre.
Date 1954-2000 Location Mexico Result Implementation of neoliberal policies. Several acts of violence have not yet been clarified. Political defeat of the PRI in the 2000 presidential elections before the National Action Party (PAN). Grouping of the political left and formation of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Belligerents
Left-wing groups Party of the Poor Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre EZLN EPR Various social and armed movements in the country	Mexico Institutional Revolutionary Party United States (support)
Casualties and losses
At least ~1,200

Left-wing groups

Mexico

The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra Sucia) refers to the Mexican theater of the Cold War, an internal conflict between the Mexican PRI-ruled government, backed by the US, and left-wing student and guerrilla groups in the 1960s and 1970s under the presidencies of Luis Echeverría and José López Portillo. During the war, government forces carried out disappearances, estimated at 1,200, systematic torture, and "probable extrajudicial executions".

In Mexico the dirty war is a subject little known by the bulk of the population, this because the PRI has hidden or eliminated the information and was not written in the history books. The judicial investigation into State crimes against political movements was opened only until Vicente Fox's term (2000-2006), which created the Special Prosecutor's Office for Social and Political Movements of the Past (FEMOSPP). However, despite the fact that it has advanced in the knowledge of the historical facts, the FEMOSPP has not been able to arrive at finalize concrete legal responsibilities against which they have been indicated like main people in charge of the dirty war.

The war was characterized by a backlash against the active student movement of the late 1960s which terminated in the Tlatelolco massacre at a 1968 student rally in Mexico City, in which 30 to 300 (official report, non-governmental sources claim thousands) students were killed, and by the Corpus Christi massacre, a massacre of student demonstrators in Mexico City on June 10, 1971.

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