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I agree, but why? I am interested to hear opinions as to why this is the group so ripe for revolutionary ideals.

In my recent reading, a generalized classification was made that most LATAM countries are still fashioned in a modified 16th century two-class social system. Even with a recently emerging economic "middle class", this third group has tended to show little collectiveness as a politically moderate social class and actually tended to be more politically conservative than the aristocrat class. The newly formed economic middle class tends to despise the lower class(just like the upper class) and isolate themselves from them even though they themselves just came from that background. This serves to further perpetuate the distinction and animosity between the two classes (wealthy/peasant). Therefore, even though there has been some economic creation of a middle class, there is no real middle class "society" with its moderation, virtues, political pragmatism, and democratic social and political ideas. It leaves the country in what K. Silvert has called a "conflict society". No safe middle of the road society, just a constant on-again, off-again class warfare primed territory(unstable).

As to why they recruit in the Universities:
Obviously, social mobility/interaction has been very restricted between the classes in a system like this. In the last few decades, new avenues for social advancement have begun to open up. University and technical training both provide the lower class ways for mobility within in the social scale. Therefore, the people already looking for social change/struggling against the current barriers are frequently found in the Universities. These are the people that are already self-motivated and taking personal action to alter the existing "social status quo" for themselves and their loved ones.... IMO, it wouldn't take much to alter their perceptions to that of a revolutionary perspective to end the class struggle once and for all.

That is one of the reasons I think it is fertile ground. Does that make any sense to you? If not, I will retry on more sleep tomorrow. This stuff intriques me, yet I admit I am very ignorant on the issues.