The minimum program of colombian students. 1971 university student movement for unity. All one country.

Abstract

The university movement of 1971 known as “The Minimum Program of the Colombian Students” was chiefly characterized by an anti-imperialist orientation with massive participation from students of public universities throughout the country, with the added shouts coming from students of recognized private universities. The movement identified with the defense of academic principles and budgetary increments that guaranteed academic operations, including those who—through leftist ideologies and interests of the movement leaders—focused on the importance of an academic base. All shared the same serious contradictions in their conception of what a university should be, without a clear social, political or cultural identity, constituting a mixture of voices that expressed the sentiments of the Colombian university system, amalgamated with political and ideological interests oriented toward social change and the political activism of the left.