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'La Onda' ("The Wave") refers to the Mexican counterculture of the 1960s.
After the 1968 Mexican student movements ended in the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City, a native hippie movement known as the "jipitecas" grew in its wake. By 1970 a new wave of Mexican music began to emerge, fusing Mexican and foreign music with images of political protest. This movement was called 'La Onda Chicana', culminating in a three-day "Mexican Woodstock" known as "Avándaro" (Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro) which attracted 150,000–200,000 people in the fall of 1971.^[1]
La Onda not only influenced Mexican rock but Mexican literature as well, making its mark on the "new Central-American novel" and other genres. The wave of popular Mexican novels in the 1960s, "emphasized the sentiments of the new urban middle-class adolescent and the influence of United States culture, rock music, the generation gap, and the hippie movement." La Onda also influenced many authors, including Guatemalan writer Mario Roberto Morales.^[2]

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