 This emphasis on urbanization eventually led to the worker and student movement of the 1960s.As 1968 approached, the president of Mexico gained more and more absolute and monopolizing power.President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz displayed the terrible effects of absolute government on the people of Mexico; "the issue of accountability, along with other constitutional questions such as the relationship of the powers and the effective participation of civil society in the political processes, fell by the wayside".