Plaque unveiled in honor of Daniel Molina Álvarez, member of Committee 68

In a heartfelt tribute to Daniel Molina Álvarez, member of Committee 68, friends and fellow fighters unveiled a plaque in his honor at the Tlatelolco Stela, within the framework of his third death anniversary.

As part of Committee 68, they highlighted, Molina Álvarez experienced important achievements by being the first to denounce former officials of the Mexican State for the crimes of genocide, illegal deprivation of liberty, and abuse of authority, and that former president Luis was prosecuted. Echeverría Álvarez, who was imprisoned at his home for more than two years.

In the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, members of the Democratic ProLibertades Committee 68 placed an offering of flowers and candles on the stele where the names of the victims of October 2 are inscribed. From this emblematic place, they remembered the legacy of the historian, journalist and social fighter who from the age of 16 was part of the student movement in Mexico.

David Roura, member of Committee 68, remembered Molina Álvarez as an “indispensable companion for the fight”; He also read the poem he authored “And who are you?”, a reference to the collective memory of the student movement from 56 years ago.

Dolifet Antúnez, a member of the committee, pointed out that Daniel never stopped denouncing political injustices and fighting against them. Proof of this, he highlighted, in the repression against the railroad movement in 1959 he requested, together with Raúl Álvarez Garin, they requested the then Secretary of the Interior, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, the release of prisoners. However, in response they were detained and for three weeks they remained in military camp number 1.

As a historian and poet he produced articles and materials of great scientific and political value on social and historical topics. Among them are his essays La Caravana del Hambre, which narrate the struggle of the miners of Nueva Rosita, Coahuila, and Tlatelolco, mi Amor, dedicated to the victims of the 1985 earthquake.

After unveiling the plaque, on which his poem “Canto de Amor a Tlatelolco” was recorded, Roura highlighted that “these are the true places of memory”, the anti-monuments, those made and installed by the people.

In this context, Ana Ignacia Rodríguez, La Nacha, a renowned activist of Committee 68, expressed her rejection of the presence of the Army and the National Guard in the streets, because in this emblematic square “we were victims, some of our companions died and we “We escaped but we fell into a clandestine prison.”

“How are we going to say that it is not the military who were here; They are not the past, but it is the same military institution that is being given more and more weight,” he claimed.