Los “rectores policías” y el repensar del Alma Mater: violencia y movilización social en la Universidad de Antioquia durante la década de 1970

Abstract

Social and student mobilizations have marked the history of the country since the beginning of the 20th century. Its motives, causes and social agents are of vital interest to understand the complexity of the phenomenon and the contexts in which they are embedded. This article explores social mobilization at the University of Antioquia during the 1970s, highlighting some historical-social antecedents of the national mobilizations, as well as the repercussions of the phenomenon for the coming years of the institution, promptly until 1980. This, on the look of the position and activity of the so-called "Rectors cops", administrative entities that had a notable influence on the university environment of the time and on the activities of repression, violence, and resistance. For this, the article relies on the newspaper El Colombiano, and on reflective bibliographic productions on national violence during the second half of the 20th century.