Un interessante articolo in chiave storica sull’attivismo studentesco in Latino america – si legge qui.
“Scholars have traced the first student uprisings to the 17th century, but a championing of youth as active agents of political and social change is a fairly recent phenomenon. Ricardo Flores Magón, Jose Vasconcelos, Julio Mella, Raul Haya de la Torre, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Carlos Fonseca, José Mujica, and Dilma Rousseff (among many others) initiated their “revolutionary dreams” as young student activists, and once in power, they all recognized the importance of youth in their distinct visions of the Americas. Every single decade of the 20th century, in fact, has witnessed a significant student uprising and all of the most influential parties in Latin America have tried to co-opt and/or negotiate with disgruntled student activists by creating their respective youth wings. In particular, there have been three key moments when Latin American students shook up the status quo and in so doing assumed the role of key protagonists in history: the 1920s, the more turbulent 1960s, and more recently, the anti-neoliberal 1990s-2000s.”