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University youth as social protagonist in Latin America
- Source: CEPAL Review, Volume 1986, Issue 29, Oct 1986, p. 191 - 202
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- 29 Oct 1986
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Abstract
In the last years of the 1960s it was common practice for students of social conditions in Latin America to present university youth as one of the key agents in the processes of change. The story of its demands and the results of its actions since the Côrdoba movement form a very important element in the region’s socio-political history. However, the systematic study of the condition of the university student movement has not been brought up to date and its role in the processes of change in the region is one of the least known areas of social analysis. And this is why at the present time, given the dizzying transformation of socio-economic and political structures which the region has undergone, it maybe wondered to what extent such a capacity and potential exist.