Abstract

SANCHEZ PARRA, Sergio Arturo. Radical Students and Urban Bus Drivers in Sinaloa, México. The Case of the Social Bus Movement Occurred on October 1972. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2013, vol.5, n.10, pp.129-163. ISSN 2145-132X.

It is the story of a radical student ''Los Enfermos'', which together with public transport workers in Sinaloa (Mexico) took to the fight against government authorities demanding better wages for the latter. The bus driver movement transcended those goals. This paper aims to reconstruct the history of the main urban social movement Sinaloa deployed in late twentieth century. Based on the proposals of social history to analyze four fundamental edges of a popular protest that led a group of students from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa were declared in the underground and from there launched their revolutionary struggle against the Mexican state. The aspects considered here are: a) the state sociopolitical environment, b) movement origins and development of truck driver, c) balances student labor struggle, and finally d) the political effects exerted on ''Los Enfermos'' the final outcome of the protest.

Keywords : leftism; social movement; Autonomous University of Sinaloa; ''Enfermos''.

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