1999 UNAM strike 1999 UNAM strike The 1999-2000 strike and shutdown of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico, the largest university in Latin America) had its origins in the January 1999 announcement by its latest rector that tuition would increase significantly and graduation requirements would become more restrictive. In response, a large group of students declared a strike and blockaded the main campus to the point of institutional paralysis. The blockades intensified and eventually led to the university's closure, during which there were violent encounters between opposition groups, students, guards and faculty. The crisis led to the eventual resignation of the university's
Mexican art be expressed in a mural in support of student movement's protests; the work became known as the "Mural Efímero" (or "Ephemeral Mural")" at UNAM". The third Independent Salon was staged in 1970. In 1976 "Fernando Gambao spearheads the organization of an exposition of abstract art entitled "El Geometrismo Mexicano Una Tendencia Actual"". "In an attempt to reassess ... post-1968 Mexican art, the Museum of Science and Art at UNAM" organized in 2007, the exhibition "La Era de la Discrepancia. Arte y cultura visual en México 1968-1997" In 1990 the exhibition "Mexico: Esplendor de Treinta Siglos", started its world tour at