La Onda Chicana

La Onda (Spanish for The Wave in English) is what the Mexican counterculture of the 1960s was known as. A native hippie movement known as the "jipitecas" grew in the aftermath of the 1968 Mexican student movements that ended in the Tlatelolco Massacre in Mexico City. By 1970 a new wave of Mexican music began to emerge, combining Mexican and foreign music, along with images of political protest. This new wave was called La Onda Chicana, culminating in a three-day "Mexican Woodstock" in 1971 known as "Avándaro" (Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro). The event was attended by 150,000–200,000 people in the fall of 1971. La Onda not only influenced Mexican music, but also Mexican literature and many authors, including Guatemalan writer Mario Roberto Morales.