Abstract

COLLADO HERRERA, María del Carmen. The Cold War, the 1968 Student Movement and the Government of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. The Perspective of US Security Agencies. Secuencia [online]. 2017, n.98, pp.158-203. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i98.1394.

This paper analyzes US security agencies’ perception of the 1968 Mexican student movement and Mexico’s relations with Cuba and Soviet bloc countries in general. These security agencies’ perception of Mexico’s diplomacy with countries in the communist orbit serve as the framework for understanding the opposing and overlapping perceptions of the governments of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Lyndon B. Johnson of the ʼ68 movement. The processes analyzed occurred within a framework of close cooperation between the two administrations because of the Cold War and the anti-Communist views shared by the two leaders. The article shows that although they sometimes expressed contradictory views and had varying levels of reliability, depending on the timing and purpose with which they were written, US security reports did not support the regime’s official version of events in ʼ68.

Keywords : student movement; security agencies; Díaz Ordaz; U.S; Cold War.

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