An example of “Cantinflando” in

English:
And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring
through nature’s finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under
the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it’s the
frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid
beauty, the cold though, doesn’t it split the Cheechakos from the
Sourdoughs?

And then in the summertime such extreme summertime about a

hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than
just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost
heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and
reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all
Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to
the future.

That is what we get to see every day. Now what the rest of America
gets to see along with us is in this last frontier there is hope and
opportunity and there is country pride.
 CANOA

MEXICO 1968
 1968: The whole world was
watching.
1968 was a tumultuous year internationally.

The Vietnam War was still raging,

and more and more US citizens
were opposing it.
North Korea captured the USS
Pueblo, a Navy intelligence
gathering ship.
The photo that helped turn the
US against the war in Vietnam.
My Lai massacre
US troops
rampage
through the
village of My
Lai, killing
more than 500
civilians,
claiming “We
had to destroy
the village in
order to save
it…”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Days after leading a sanitation workers’
march in Memphis, Dr. King is shot and
killed.
Students occupy Columbia
University
 On “Blood Monday” 5000
students march through the
Latin Quarter of Paris and
battle with police.
9,000,000 workers later strike
in support.
 Robert Kennedy is shot and
killed after a campaign speech.
 The “Yippies” are formed.

The Youth International

Party, a radical
counterculture offshoot of
the free speech and anti-war
movements. Led by Abbie
Hoffman and Jerry Rubin,
they engaged in street
theater, demonstrations,
food co-ops, underground
newspapers, and satirical
pranks [like nominating a
pig for president].
 The Soviet Union invades
Czechoslovakia with 200,000+
troops.
The Democratic Party’s convention
in Chicago turns into a riot when
police send 100 demonstrators to
the emergency room.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9uJL7lWdFg
 2 October
Mexico City

La Plaza de las Tres Plaza of Three Cultures

Culturas

Tlatelolco
 MODERN MEXICO

SPANISH COLONIAL

AZTEC
Mexican students, inspired by the actions of students in
France, the US and elsewhere, took to the streets to protest
societal iniquities, governmental repression, censorship
and corruption.
Impoverished Mexico was
about to host the Summer
They were further inspired
Olympics, which, regardless
by the Cuban Revolution
of promises and calculations,
and the various leftist
ALWAYS leaves the host
groups internationally that
country in debt.
had also been inspired by
the actions of a few who
overthrew a colonial power. Students were joined by
workers from various
segments of the labor
force.
Women were also enjoying new-
found freedoms of expression,
independence, and liberation from
the machismo inherent in Mexican
society.
The students protested over the course of 146 days,
basing themselves on the campus of the UNAM. The
Rector of the University protected the students
against soldiers and even the President of the
country [Díaz Ordaz], leading 50,000 students in a
On 2 October, the students and protesters
marched from the campus to Tlatelolco, were
they were met by the army and by the Olympic
Battalion [military men in plain clothes, who
could identify each other because they had
either a white handkerchief or a white glove on
the right hand]
After the masses had arrived and
assembled, a leader announced that
the planned march to the Casco de
Santo Tomás del Politécnico [another
university] was suspended because
5000 soldiers and 300 tanks were
waiting for them there.
Just after that 3 helicopters flew overhead,
shining lights down on to the group. And
then the shots rang out.

Many ran to the church for

shelter, but the Franciscan
friars inside refused to open
the doors.
As the demonstrators ran towards the
street in order to escape, they were
fired on from behind by the soldiers.
Other soldiers blocked access to the
street, trapping 1000s inside of the
plaza.

They later searched the apartment

building, residence by residence, looking
for protesters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UnQP1F4Njg&NR=1&feature=fv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUHM-MjmeCI&NR=1
 The next day…..
Life went on in Mexico City as if
nothing had happened.
Most newspapers which were controlled by the
government, described the event as a riot caused by
students, who provoked the military. One paper
described the students as terrorists.

Documents released years later showed the snipers to have been

members of the Presidential Guard, who had been ordered to fire
on the soldiers in order to provoke them.

The official casualty count was 32 dead, 80

injured, 1000 arrested. Another 1000 were later
detained.

The press was prohibited from further investigating and

publishing about the massacre.
 Tlatelolco
today
It look over 30 years to get an
official investigation into the
massacre. Vicente Fox, the first
Mexican president to NOT be a
member of PRI, opened the
military and governmental
archives to release official
documents. Former President Luis
Echeverría was arrested on
charges of genocide, but the
charges were later dismissed.
The investigation continues.
Documents showing the role
of the Pentagon, the CIA, the
FBI and the US State Dept. in
the events preceding and
following the massacre have
been discovered.
 In 1993, to mark the 25th
anniversary, a stele with the
names of some of those killed
was erected in the Plaza.

One feature film, Rojo

amanecer was made about
the events. Another,
Tlatelolco: Mexico 1968 is
due to be released any day
now.
 Tonight’s film
This is the background San Miguel de Canoa
against which tonight’s is a small, very
actions take place. conservative, very
religious town in
central Mexico, near
Puebla.
http://www.visitmexico.com/wb/Visitmexico/Visi_mapa_gen
 La Malinche

A name we’ve seen before, but

this time in a different context.
Here she is a volcano, also known
as Matlalccuéyelt, Matlalcueitl,
Malintzín, or Malintzi.

The volcano has been

dormant for over 3000
years. The summit is
around 14,650 feet / 4661
meters, the 6th highest
peak in Mexico and the
252nd in the world.
 The power of the priest

We’ve seen different manifestations of this all semester. The

one tonight, taking place 41 years ago, is more disturbing
than the previous ones [although perhaps not as bad as what
we’ll see next week—your call]

{The actor playing the What to watch for and think

priest was the Doctor in about:
the film La Llorona}
1. The priest

2. The narrator

3. The different actions and

reactions of the villagers.