1999 UNAM strike who signed a statement saying they could not afford the new rates. A group of students quickly organized a protest, on the grounds that thousands of students would have to see their studies interrupted unable to afford tuition. With the support of the community, UNAM was shut down temporarily by the protesters during part of February and also part of March 1999. Ultimately on April 20, 1999, this group referred to itself as the Comité General de Huelga (CGH or "Strike General Committee") and declared a continuing, if not permanent, closure of the university. In June 1999, the 132-member government
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