{"id":7042428,"date":"2026-08-20T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/the-history-of-the-present-time-in-mexico-a-field-in-formation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:00:57","slug":"the-history-of-the-present-time-in-mexico-a-field-in-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7042428","title":{"rendered":"The History of the Present Time in Mexico: A Field in Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-13-at-2.37.32-PM-1024x512.jpeg\" alt=\"Banner for The History of the Presnt Time in Mexico by Josu\u00e9 Portillo Motte. \" class=\"wp-image-41090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-13-at-2.37.32-PM-1024x512.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-13-at-2.37.32-PM-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-13-at-2.37.32-PM-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-13-at-2.37.32-PM-1536x768.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-13-at-2.37.32-PM-640x320.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-13-at-2.37.32-PM-666x333.jpeg 666w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-13-at-2.37.32-PM.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This article has a <a href=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/la-historia-del-tiempo-presente-en-mexico-un-campo-en-construccion\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/la-historia-del-tiempo-presente-en-mexico-un-campo-en-construccion\/\">Spanish version<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The History of the Present Time (HPT) in Mexico is emerging as a historiographical field in formation\u2014open, evolving, and still being defined. It constitutes an essential space of reflection for understanding the fractures, continuities, and forms of violence that shape contemporary national reality. Unlike traditional historiography, which focuses on a closed past and privileges official documentation as its primary source, the HPT is concerned with the unfinished: social processes whose historicity remains open because their actors, victims, and witnesses are still alive. From this perspective, linear divisions of historical time (past\u2013present\u2013future) are questioned in favor of contemporaneity, generational experience, and the simultaneous coexistence of multiple temporalities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The relevance of the HPT in Mexico extends beyond national borders, establishing itself as a necessary framework for both local and international scholars. The Mexican case demonstrates that the HPT is far more than a chronicle of the recent past; it is an analytical tool that provides historical depth to some of today\u2019s most pressing challenges. Structural problems such as narcotrafficking, feminicide, forced disappearances, and state violence are often analyzed primarily through the immediacy of journalism or the synchronic lens of sociology. While these disciplines are valuable, their epistemological orientations tend to privilege the \u201chere and now,\u201d often obscuring deeper roots, long-term continuities, and historical processes that have shaped these conflicts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Carmen Collado notes, interpretations offered by journalism and the social sciences are important, but \u201cwhat is missing in this panorama is a perspective that contains the density provided by both diachronic and synchronic knowledge that history can offer.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" id=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> By incorporating a historiographical approach, it becomes possible to move beyond the immediate conjuncture and understand these phenomena not as isolated events but as outcomes of complex processes that require historical explanation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Alameda_Central_20th_century._Mexico_City.jpg\" alt=\"Panoramic view of Alameda Central of Mexico City during the 20th century. \" class=\"wp-image-41091\" style=\"width:511px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Alameda_Central_20th_century._Mexico_City.jpg 770w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Alameda_Central_20th_century._Mexico_City-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Alameda_Central_20th_century._Mexico_City-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Alameda_Central_20th_century._Mexico_City-640x499.jpg 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Alameda_Central_20th_century._Mexico_City-427x333.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Alameda Central 20th century. Mexico City. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Alameda_Central_20th_century._Mexico_City.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To fully grasp the Mexican case, however, it is essential to situate it in relation to broader regional and global developments. In Europe, the HPT was institutionalized beginning in the 1970s, marked by milestones such as the creation of the Institut d\u2019Histoire du Temps Pr\u00e9sent in France (1978), driven by the need to process the traumas of World War II, the Holocaust, and the Vichy regime. In this context, the HPT emerged in connection with the experience of the \u201clast catastrophe\u201d\u2014a defining event that shattered the previous historical order and reshaped collective consciousness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Southern Cone\u2014particularly Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay\u2014the field, often referred to as \u201cRecent History,\u201d arose from the political and moral urgency to denounce, document, and understand the crimes of civil-military dictatorships. This historiography is born of pain,<a href=\"#_ftn2\" id=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> closely tied to activism, struggles for truth and justice, and the effort to make visible systematic forms of state violence such as forced disappearance, torture, and state terrorism.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Junta_Militar_de_Pinochet.jpg\" alt=\"The military junta and Augusto Pinochet Ugarte at the Diego Portales Building for another celebration of the Constitution. In the front row, from left to right: C\u00e9sar Mendoza, Jos\u00e9 Toribio Merino, Augusto Pinochet, Fernando Matthei, and Humberto Gordon.\" class=\"wp-image-41094\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5044327692832733;width:560px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Junta_Militar_de_Pinochet.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Junta_Militar_de_Pinochet-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Junta_Militar_de_Pinochet-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Junta_Militar_de_Pinochet-640x425.jpg 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Junta_Militar_de_Pinochet-501x333.jpg 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Pinochet\u2019s Military Junta. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Junta_Militar_de_Pinochet.JPG\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Junta_Militar_de_Pinochet.JPG\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The development of the HPT in Mexico, however, displays distinctive features. Unlike the European and South American cases, it is not structured around a single abrupt rupture but rather around persistent violence embedded in a long-standing authoritarian system. Scholars generally identify at least two key moments in its formation:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The student movement of 1968.<\/strong>\u00a0Widely considered a pivotal turning point, 1968 not only exposed the exhaustion of the official narrative of the Mexican Revolution but also generated its own historians. The Tlatelolco massacre revealed the repressive capacity of the state and opened an irreversible fracture in the regime\u2019s legitimacy, prompting new questions about power, memory, and violence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The political transition of 2000.<\/strong>\u00a0The electoral defeat of the PRI after more than seventy years in power compelled the Mexican state to confront, at least partially, its repressive past. The creation of the Special Prosecutor\u2019s Office for Social and Political Movements of the Past (FEMOSPP) and the limited opening of the so-called \u201carchives of repression\u201d in 2002 legitimized the present as a field of historiographical intervention.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Mexico, however, violence is not perceived as an anomaly confined to a closed period, but as a constant linking the Dirty War (periodized between 1965 and 1990) with contemporary tragedies such as Ayotzinapa, feminicide, and narcotrafficking-related violence. The present thus appears as a \u201csuspended time,\u201d in the words of Camilo Vicente Ovalle, or as an unfinished temporality in which the persistence of radical evil and impunity prevents the symbolic closure of the past.<a href=\"#_ftn3\" id=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Movimiento_estudiantil_68_50-1024x699.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of soldiers standing guard in Tlatelolco Square during the 1968 student movement\" class=\"wp-image-41095\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4649458741449597;width:552px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Movimiento_estudiantil_68_50-1024x699.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Movimiento_estudiantil_68_50-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Movimiento_estudiantil_68_50-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Movimiento_estudiantil_68_50-1536x1049.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Movimiento_estudiantil_68_50-2048x1399.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Movimiento_estudiantil_68_50-640x437.jpg 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Movimiento_estudiantil_68_50-488x333.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201968 Student Movement. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Movimiento_estudiantil_68_50.jpg\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Movimiento_estudiantil_68_50.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the principal obstacles facing HPT in Mexico is institutional opacity. Although in 2002 records from the Direcci\u00f3n Federal de Seguridad (DFS) were transferred to the Archivo General de la Naci\u00f3n (AGN), a substantial portion of documentation remains under the discretionary control of state intelligence agencies. This is compounded by a significant legal setback: the 2012 Federal Archives Law introduced the category of \u201chistorical-confidential document,\u201d which allows access to information related to human rights violations to be restricted under the pretext of protecting personal privacy\u2014even in cases involving perpetrators. For many researchers, this legal category functions as a mechanism for the archival management of impunity, concealing state secrets under the formal language of transparency and data protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, this historiographical perspective opens alternative avenues. Faced with restrictions in official archives, historians of the present encounter an overabundance of alternative sources: press, television, digital platforms, and social media. The proliferation of devices such as smartphones and tablets, along with the expansion of the internet, has radically transformed regimes of information production, enabling citizens themselves to become producers of sources by documenting police abuses, acts of violence, and everyday life. Yet this documentary richness poses technical challenges of verification, preservation, and analysis, exacerbated by the volatility of digital media and the absence of robust audiovisual preservation policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within this landscape, oral history occupies a central role as a tool for recovering subaltern memories and giving voice to those historically silenced. However, working with contemporaries raises profound ethical dilemmas\u2014from interviewing perpetrators, with the risk of trivializing or normalizing violence, to the responsibility of critically interrogating testimony through rigorous historical methods. In Mexico, historians of the present often assume the role of expert witnesses, intervening in public uses of history and contributing to the construction of critical consciousness in a society that, as Javier Sicilia has warned, has been hollowed out by extreme violence.<a href=\"#_ftn4\" id=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Javier_Sicilia_02-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Javier Sicilia delivering his speech after the march for peace from Cuernavaca to Mexico City on May 8, 2011.\" class=\"wp-image-41096\" style=\"width:573px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Javier_Sicilia_02-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Javier_Sicilia_02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Javier_Sicilia_02-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Javier_Sicilia_02-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Javier_Sicilia_02-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Javier_Sicilia_02-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Javier_Sicilia_02-444x333.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Javier Sicilia. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Javier_Sicilia_02.JPG\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researching the present in Mexico is therefore not merely an academic exercise but an ethical and political commitment. The HPT responds to a social demand to render historically intelligible painful phenomena that official history has often silenced, fragmented, or depoliticized. Institutions such as Instituto Mora and the Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico (UNAM) have fostered seminars and projects aimed at thinking through these \u201chistories of the living,\u201d recognizing the present as a laboratory for new forms of historical writing\u2014more attuned to complexity, uncertainty, and the density of human experience.<a href=\"#_ftn5\" id=\"_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a field in formation, the HPT in Mexico holds enormous potential to deepen understanding of the country\u2019s most urgent problems. Despite the legal, archival, and emotional challenges posed by studying ongoing violence, this approach opens the possibility of exploring \u201cvirgin archives\u201d and narrating history as it unfolds. Ultimately, as many specialists agree, it is a living history that seeks to prevent the mechanisms of forgetting from overtaking the experiences of contemporary generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this context, historiographical practice cannot be limited to distant observation or mere chronological updating. To study the present is to actively contest the meanings of the past in a country where violence, impunity, and institutional silence are not residues of a bygone era but ongoing structures. In the face of a state that administers forgetting through archival control, memory fragmentation, and the normalization of violence, HPT emerges as a form of intellectual resistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent episodes\u2014such as outbreaks of violence in Culiac\u00e1n or Guadalajara following the capture of key figures from the Sinaloa Cartel or the Jalisco New Generation Cartel\u2014should not be read as isolated events but as symptoms of a deeper security crisis. This is compounded by the alarming escalation of gender-based violence, evident in cases such as that of Kimberly Ramos, a student at the Universidad Aut\u00f3noma del Estado de Morelos, or the recent feminicide of Edith Guadalupe in Mexico City. These realities, alongside the sustained rise in disappearances, reveal a troubling pattern of state negligence, in which authorities often prioritize the management of public image\u2014even in globally visible contexts such as the upcoming World Cup\u2014over the protection of life and justice. The study of these conditions lays the groundwork for further lines of inquiry within the HPT in Mexico.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/World_Cup_2026-_Celebracion_en_el_Angel_de_la_Independencia_553333291061-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Mexico fans waving the national flag and celebrating at the feet of the Angel of Independence. \" class=\"wp-image-41097\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777411058065204;width:676px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/World_Cup_2026-_Celebracion_en_el_Angel_de_la_Independencia_553333291061-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/World_Cup_2026-_Celebracion_en_el_Angel_de_la_Independencia_553333291061-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/World_Cup_2026-_Celebracion_en_el_Angel_de_la_Independencia_553333291061-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/World_Cup_2026-_Celebracion_en_el_Angel_de_la_Independencia_553333291061-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/World_Cup_2026-_Celebracion_en_el_Angel_de_la_Independencia_553333291061-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/World_Cup_2026-_Celebracion_en_el_Angel_de_la_Independencia_553333291061-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/World_Cup_2026-_Celebracion_en_el_Angel_de_la_Independencia_553333291061-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/notevenpast.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/World_Cup_2026-_Celebracion_en_el_Angel_de_la_Independencia_553333291061-1140x640.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">World Cup 2026- Celebration at the Angel of Independence: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:World_Cup_2026-Celebraci%C3%B3n_en_el%C3%81ngel_de_la_Independencia_(55333329106).jpg\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:World_Cup_2026-Celebraci%C3%B3n_en_el%C3%81ngel_de_la_Independencia_(55333329106).jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In light of this panorama, it is imperative to move beyond immediate chronicle. Unlike disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, or journalism, the HPT insists on revisiting the recent past to uncover the structures, logics, and mechanisms of power that have enabled these problems to persist and intensify. Far from being a retrospective exercise, the HPT is an indispensable analytical tool for understanding the continuities, ruptures, and transformations that shape the present conjuncture. Only through this critical historiographical practice\u2014one that exposes how complicities have been forged and how institutions have operated in recent decades\u2014can we make sense of our current reality and, ultimately, lay the groundwork for transforming Mexico\u2019s political and social horizon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To treat the present as a historical object is to reject the comfort of narrative closure and confront the persistence of a past that refuses to pass. The historian of the present does not produce knowledge from a position of neutrality; rather, they intervene in the struggle over lives that resist disappearance, over violences that power seeks to erase, and over historical responsibilities that the present must claim. In a country marked by the repetition and normalization of violence, writing history becomes an act of insubordination against impunity\u2014an effort to prevent terror from becoming naturalized and to ensure that the experiences of generations are not absorbed into the logic of forgetting.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Collado Herrera, Mar\u00eda del Carmen, \u201cHistoria del tiempo presente: algunas reflexiones metodol\u00f3gicas\u201d en Presente y Pasado. Revista de Historia, Universidad de Los Andes, M\u00e9rida, 2021, p. 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" id=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> According to Eugenia Allier, this is an observation made by researchers Marina Franco and Florencia Lev\u00edn regarding this historiographical field in Argentina. Allier Monta\u00f1o, Eugenia, \u201cEl tiempo presente en la historia: generaciones, memoria y controversia,\u201d in Allier Monta\u00f1o, Eugenia, C\u00e9sar Iv\u00e1n Vilchis Ortega, and Camilo Vicente Ovalle (eds.), <em>En la cresta de la ola: Debates y definiciones en torno a la historia del tiempo presente<\/em>, Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM, Bonilla Artigas, 2020, p. 59.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" id=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> Vicente Ovalle C. [Tiempo Suspendido] Una historia de la desaparici\u00f3n forzada en M\u00e9xico, 1940-1980. M\u00e9xico: Bonilla Artigas Editores, 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" id=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> Gami\u00f1o Mu\u00f1oz, Rodolfo, \u201cLa historia vivida y el estudio de la violencia en M\u00e9xico: conflictos historiogr\u00e1ficos y dilemas metodol\u00f3gicos\u201d en Allier Monta\u00f1o, Eugenia, C\u00e9sar Iv\u00e1n Vilchis Ortega y Camilo Vicente Ovalle (coords.), <em>En la cresta de la ola. Debates y definiciones en torno a la historia del tiempo presente<\/em>, M\u00e9xico, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM, Bonilla Artigas, 2020, p. 418.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref5\" id=\"_ftn5\">[5]<\/a> For further information, see \u201cIntroduction\u201d in Collado H., Mar\u00eda del Carmen (ed.), <em>Nueve ensayos sobre historia del tiempo presente<\/em>, Mexico, Instituto Mora, 2021, pp. 7\u201326.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Josu\u00e9 Portillo Motte <\/strong>holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in history from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM, a master\u2019s degree in history from the Autonomous Metropolitan University, and is currently a doctoral student in modern and contemporary history at the Dr. Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Luis Mora Research Institute. His research focuses on student movements, political police forces, and Mexican intelligence services during the second half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author of banner picture: Santarrana <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Manifestaci%C3%B3n_60_aniversario_del_2_de_octubre_3.jpg\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Manifestaci%C3%B3n_60_aniversario_del_2_de_octubre_3.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The views and opinions expressed in this article or video are those of the individual author(s) or presenter(s) and do not necessarily reflect the policy or views of the editors at Not Even Past, the UT Department of History, the University of Texas at Austin, or the UT System Board of Regents. Not Even Past is an online public history magazine rather than a peer-reviewed academic journal. While we make efforts to ensure that factual information in articles was obtained from reliable sources, Not Even Past is not responsible for any errors or omissions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article has a Spanish version The History of the Present Time (HPT) in Mexico is emerging as a historiographical field in formation\u2014open, evolving, and still being defined. It constitutes an essential space of reflection for understanding the fractures, continuities, and forms of violence that shape contemporary national reality. 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