Guanajuato, Gto., November 24, 2015.- The University of Guanajuato at San Miguel de Allende celebrated the conference named "Los niños y la revolución mexicana" (Children and the Mexican revolution), given by the historian Maria del Rocio Tovar Hernández, graduate from this house of studies.

Rocio Tovar remarked than in 1910, the children population represented 40% of the country's habitants; that is why, no matter the social class of the underage, the armed movement marked the life and memory of Mexican children because all of them faced violence, family and social ruptures, poverty, instability and loss.

Every children, from their context, some as protagonists, other as spectators, lived and suffered the effects of the armed movement that changed the future of many of them, or well, dwindled, she said.

The topic of war and children, "sadly, is still current", regretted the historian, so that is where the importance to think about this phenomenon and its consequences comes from, not only for the social context in which they develop, but also the schools that in a personal and mental level carry this type of facts.

Photographs and memories from that time were part of the conference and showed who assisted the transcendence of the movement in the life of children who lived during the Mexican revolution.

Finally, Tovar Hernández said to who assisted that the Mexican revolution period was a time of change, illusions and many times hopelessness, in which the children, considered "the future", were an important part of a present that contributed change in Mexico.