Political Violence and Popular Mobilization: Chihuahua, 1972

Authors

  • Gerardo Necoechea Gracia Profesor titular de la cátedra de Historia Social de México siglo XX y en el Posgrado en Historia y Etnohistoria, de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México)
  • Alicia De Los Ríos Merino Docente e investigadora de tiempo completo en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (México)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.39.2021.2962

Keywords:

People’s Defense Committee of Chihuahua, social movements, Mexican Communist Party, Movimiento Sindical Ferrocarrilero, armed-political organizations, Colonia Pancho Villa, Chihuahua

Abstract

This article discusses the People’s Defense Committee (CDP), organized in the city of Chihuahua (Mexico) in 1972. The Committee, we argue here, emerged as the result of a convergence process of social struggles taking place separately through the 1960s. Such convergence occurred, first, due to the action of a political-military group and the repression that followed; and second, due to the networks of relationships that had been emerged among those involved in the various social struggles. For this reason, this article describes the path of the armed groups and the student, urban popular and union movements in Chihuahua: the CDP was a common point of arrival. The subsequent social protest was qualitatively different because of the strength gained by unified and concerted actions.

Author Biographies

Gerardo Necoechea Gracia, Profesor titular de la cátedra de Historia Social de México siglo XX y en el Posgrado en Historia y Etnohistoria, de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México)

Es Doctor en Historia por la University City of New York y por la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia Forma parte de la Asociación Mexicana de Historia Oral

Alicia De Los Ríos Merino , Docente e investigadora de tiempo completo en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (México)

Maestra en Historia por la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México) y candidata a doctora en Historia por la misma institución.

How to Cite

Necoechea Gracia, G., & De Los Ríos Merino , A. . (2021). Political Violence and Popular Mobilization: Chihuahua, 1972. Historia Caribe, 16(39), 117–151. https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.39.2021.2962

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Published

2021-07-01

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