Subversive Agents and “guerrilleros”? Left wing Jesuits in Mexican Intelligence Archives during the Second Half of the 20th Century

In the 1970s, both the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) and the Dirección General de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociales (DGIPS), the two Mexican intelligence agencies under the Ministry of the Interior, produced a series of reports alleging that a group of Jesuits were planning subversive acti...

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Autor principal: Alvarez Gutiérrez, Ana Lucía
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Publicado: Investigaciones Socio-Históricas Regionales (ISHIR) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://ojs.rosario-conicet.gov.ar/index.php/AvancesCesor/article/view/2021
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Sumario:In the 1970s, both the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) and the Dirección General de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociales (DGIPS), the two Mexican intelligence agencies under the Ministry of the Interior, produced a series of reports alleging that a group of Jesuits were planning subversive actions within Mexican territory. They even identified them as responsible for the formation of the September 23rd Communist League, an urban guerrilla group active in Mexico since 1973. This article seeks to analyze the origins of these claims and the reasons behind the change in the political police’s perception of these religious figures.