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RIOS GORDILLO, Carlos Alberto. The Besieged Memory: The Dispute over the Present in the Commemoration of the Bicentennial. Secuencia [online]. 2013, n.87, pp.177-204. ISSN 2395-8464.

A time of celebration and commemoration, 2010 was the year of the celebration of Independence in Latin America. "200 years of independence" was celebrated through a liturgy of the past and a ritual of commemoration. Thus, the theater of national memory updated a social control strategy used by the catholic Church for centuries: its control over time and space. Thus, particularly in Mexico, calendars and geographies were battlefields between the State and Church, but especially between the State and social groups and movements, which, when confronted with state celebrations and by using a variety of strategies, redesigned the culture of nationalism. A dispute over memory and the past, it was also a dispute over the present and future alternatives.

Palavras-chave : Bicentennial; (counter) memory; commemoration; left; EZLN.