Nothing was a coincidence: Miguel Calderón Moreno. UAP, 1971-1973 (Mexico)

Abstract

This text presents the testimonies of Miguel Calderón Moreno, who was a student at the Autonomous University of Puebla: a high school student in 1971-1972 and a law student in 1973. His admission to the University corresponds to the context in which the movement that took place was promoted. known as the second University Reform, led by leftist groups that grew in presence and participation after the student movement of 1968. This reformist current faced frontal and violent attacks from an organized opposition, mainly that of a group of porros led by Raúl Méndez Morales, known as La Salerosa, and by the Communist University Front. Miguel sympathized with the left. His political definition unleashed enmity with the salty; he was beaten, kidnapped and taken to jail in the first two years. On May 1, 1973, his brother Alfonso was killed with three other students when snipers shot at university students from different points. His story was recorded in six in-depth interviews, on different dates and, in this time of pandemic, through Zoom. His memory not only reconstructs facts, it clarifies them and refutes the versions of the press and the Federal Directorate of Security on various facts.