Upon completing his studies, Luis González de Alba joined the National Strike Council, which led the 1968 Mexican Student Movement.
Luis González de Alba was always involved in defending members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex community (LGBT), and was one of the founders of the Frente Homosexual de Acción Revolucionaria (Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action), the first openly gay organization to carry out a protest in Mexico.
Upon his return, he joined a group of journalists and writers to found the newspaper La Jornada, led by Carlos Payán.
Some of González de Alba's comrades, like Gilberto Guevara Niebla, had also suffered in prison, including the solitude and lack of communication; however, they never offered their opinion about the book's commercial and critical success.
Initially, Poniatowska did not agree to González de Alba's demands, which led to him filing a legal suit (a joint filing with Mexico's copyright office, the Instituto Nacional del Derecho de Autor) demanding that corrections be made to Poniatowska's book.
"[10] One of Luis González de Alba's most well-known incidents was his criticism of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, calling Subcomandante Marcos "a fraud, a boor, and an imbecile.
"[11] In another incident, the Mexican National Human Rights Commission (then led by Raúl Plascencia Villanueva) accused students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School for having started the gas station fire in Iguala, Guerrero, on December 12, 2011, which led to the death one of the gas station's employees, Gonzalo Rivas Cámara,[7] who suffered third-degree burns on 40% of his body while trying to extinguish the fire (Rivas was posthumously awarded the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor in 2016[12]).
From 2015 until he died, González de Alba used his weekly column Milenio Diario to consistently repeat the claims and was further agitated by the case of the Iguala mass kidnapping in 2014.
[13] Luis González de Alba committed suicide at the age of 72 in his house in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on October 2, 2016—the 48th anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre.
[14] With the news of his death, media outlets dedicated space to remembering his life and work, as El Diario NTR Guadalajara [es] did.