Álvarez Gutiérrez, A. L., y Simón Delgado, K. (Eds.). (2024). Ecos de la revolución, Radicalización, prensa y trayectorias de guerrillas de los setenta en México. Universidad Iberoamericana. 448 pp.

Abstract

This review examines Ecos de la revolución, a volume coordinated by Ana Lucía Álvarez Gutiérrez and Kevin Simon Delgado, which brings together eleven contributions by emerging scholars on the socialist armed movement in 1970s Mexico. The book is structured around three thematic axes: political subjectivities and radicalization, trajectories of politico-military organizations, and the relationship between press, film, and clandestinity. The review highlights the work’s value as a historiographical intervention committed to recovering silenced memories, as well as its editorial decision to foreground emerging voices. Nonetheless, it also notes certain limitations, such as uneven theoretical articulation, limited engagement with Latin American and English-language historiography, and a tendency toward institutional insularity. The use of previously unpublished sources and the project’s collaborative, horizontal approach are particularly noteworthy. Despite its methodological heterogeneity, the volume marks a significant contribution to a relatively unexplored field in Mexican historiography and lays the groundwork for future comparative studies on insurgency and political violence in Latin America.