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.