That massacre unleashed the Mexican Left, encouraged by the victory of the Cuban Revolution. Much of their activism emerged from the Ayotzinapa teachers college, the Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos. Founded in 1926 and still closely linked to its Marxist roots, the school’s heroes were Marx and Lenin, and in the 1970s Che Guevara. One of its students was the guerrilla leader Lucio Cabañas, who in the late 1960s, together with Genaro Vázquez Rojas, declared war on the Mexican state — with broad social support.