Abstract
This article examines the use of the Law of Social Dissolution as a repressive mechanism to incarcerate dissident students in Mexico City during the Cold War. Through a critical reading of the press, secret police documents, and the trial files, this article reconstructs the case of Nicandro Mendoza, a student leader at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, who was imprisoned in 1956. Arguments in favor and against the Law of Social Dissolution in Mexico are used here to point out that this law of exception, created during World War II, allowed the State to set the conditions of discipline and depoliticization in order that the students could access to rights to freedom of speech, thought, and association. Finally, by using the Law of Social Dissolution access to democracy for dissident students was conditioned by the State.
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