Halcones: State Terrorism

Halcones: State Terrorism 2006

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Testimonies of surviving students and film and photographic material to reconstruct the events of the so-called Corpus Thursday Massacre or 'Halconazo'

2006

La historia es nuestra: Pascual, lucha obrera y cooperativismo

La historia es nuestra: Pascual, lucha obrera y cooperativismo 2019

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History is Ours narrates the struggle of the workers of the Refrescos Pascual soft-drink company against its owner, Rafael Jiménez, the official trade unionism of the CTM and the labor authorities of the governments of José López Portillo and Miguel de la Madrid, between 1982 and 1985. It documents the workers' difficult struggle to take over the company, when justice, which had been elusive, finally proved them right, and opened the possibility that these brave, tenacious workers would become collective owners of the company. Today, these soft-drink fighters resist a system that hits Mexican companies in favor of the monopolistic transnationals. The film is an account of one of the most brilliant episodes of the contemporary Mexican labor movement, an example of unity and class consciousness, embodied by men and women who make their struggle a tribute to comrades Concepción Jacobo García and Alvaro Hernández García, tragically fallen at the beginning of this historic event.

2019