The first reaction of social sectors affected by the repression of the past has been to focus the entire conflict on the military sector, despite the accusations and acknowledgments that the military were ordered by the President of the Republic to curb national political dissent. .
In this context, the social reactions before the reconciliation initiative should first go through the demand for historical responsibilities from the rulers of the PRI era who refused from 1951 to 1978 to accept the rules of competition and wanted to live forever in the model that the Marxist writer and essayist José Revueltas characterized as the “ideological State (the Mexican Revolution), total and totalizing”, whose operation revolved around “the total control of social relations” in the systemic space of the PRI.
The best and most lucid justification for the authoritarian and repressive PRI state was given twice by the young politician Porfirio Muñoz Ledo –in a diazordacist and Echeverrist manner– in 1969, and it is this type of argumentative who must sit before the court of the history of the towns that suffered the repression. Muñoz Ledo justified the repression of 1968 as a historical synthesis of the repressive State:
“After a prolonged period of growth, forces and interests beyond the will of the people tried to divorce it from the institutions of the Republic and the oldest reactionary backgrounds came to condense into the idea that the most imperative duty for Mexicans is to diminish the authority of the State and invent a new constitutional regime.
“Today, in few countries like ours, young people find better opportunities for identification and service within civil society. Very few could truthfully hear the promise made here, almost two decades ago, by the current head of our nation (Díaz Ordaz) when he stated that his contemporaries should be the solid bridge over which the new generations would have to pass to take charge of their responsibilities to the country.
“Throughout the world there is the conviction that the latest movements of rebellion and protest have left as an immediate aftermath the increase in power of the enemies of social change. With the strictest objectivity, we can affirm that the social conflicts that took place in Mexico and that came to endanger public peace did not result in the slightest increase in power or influence in favor of those who oppose the accelerated transformation the autonomy of the country.
“The Head of the Mexican State has placed special emphasis in this report (the V) on the acts of his administration that attest to the sovereign position of Mexico vis-à-vis the outside world and that foster increasingly independent paths of economic development…
“Díaz Ordaz repeatedly said that no pressure would force the government to “mediatize the sovereignty of the nation” and, we can justly add, that it did not allow the authority that the State exercises over the particular interests that make up the community to deteriorate. Mexican. With this intention he has said that “no group, no sector, no class has the right to impose itself on others. The majority will of the Mexican people is what decides.” In the exercise of that mandate, the Executive Power made its decisions and the responsibility it assumes is —at the same time— the reaffirmation of the external sovereignty of the State and the supremacy of public power within the country.
“As a member of this party (the PRI) and as a Mexican who honestly trusts in the destiny of the new generation, nothing has moved me more deeply in the text of the V Report than the moral courage and historical lucidity with which the President of Mexico reiterates its confidence in the “purity of spirit and in the passion for justice of young Mexicans.”
“Our National Revolution is the work of successive generations (…). That is why we ache at the expectation that our young people will be shipwrecked in disillusionment or frustrate their efforts for not being able or not wanting to decipher the structures of civilization that they are called to transform.
“Education has never been a dimension of politics like now. The future that we aspire to depends largely on the formulas that we find together, the two generations, to preserve the essential continuity of our history and to affirm a new Mexico founded on reality and creative imagination. This is the last lesson I take from an exemplary report.”
In these words of Muñoz Ledo the authoritarian State of the PRI is summed up.
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