“There Was No Other Way”
“There Was No Other Way”
Chapter 5 chronicles the brief insurgent history of the National Revolutionary Civic Association (ACNR) guerrilla movement led by Genaro Vázquez from 1968 until his death in 1972. The chapter analyzes the revolutionary praxis and imaginary of the ACNR as a creative political amalgamation occupied both by Guerrero’s local histories of rebellion (and anti-imperialist interpretations of Mexican history) and the influences of a Latin American guerrilla New Left. Such a tense, productive, and at times contradictory relationship between local and global political registers, this chapter argues, explains the robust level of popular supported obtained by the ACNR from 1968 to 1972, and the movement’s military failures.
Keywords: ACNR, guerrilla insurgency, Genaro Vázquez, New Left, revolutionary imagination, popular support
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