One day my manager tell me about how diferentes government had been killed people who think different and desire a change.
I ask him if he knows something about “La masacre de Tlatelolco” he didn’t know, but for almost all the Mexican this day was really bad, a lot of innocent people were killed.
The Tlatelolco massacre occurred on October 2, 1968 at the Plaza of the Three Cultures in the neighborhood of Tlatelolco, Mexico City. This event was a military repression organized directly by the Mexican government against student groups critical of the political system who headed the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) . It has failed to gain clarity on the number of dead: Some estimates suggest hundreds (over 300 people), but almost all government sources reported an estimate of between 40 and 50. Dozens of people were injured and several arrested. The official source at the time reported more than 100 dead. The Mexican government has never revealed the number of deaths, although it is known that was counted, and it is believed that was never disclosed.
Political and historians agree that this movement and its terrible end and led to a permanent and more critical and active opposition to the government in public universities, as well as to nurture the development of urban and rural “guerrillas” in the seventies, pushing below the legal and institutional change from within the same scheme through the Political Reform in 1977 to achieve the gradual democratization of the country.
More info:
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=161
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_Massacre
Books and movies
- On October 2 is narrated in the film Red dawn (Rojo Amanecer 1989), directed by Jorge Fons, which revolves around a middle-class family living in Building Chihuahua place where, according to various sources, the scuffle began. It was filmed in 1989 and starring Hector Bonilla, Maria Rojo, the brothers Demián and Bruno Bichir and Eduardo Palomo among others, but it was not until 1990 that allowed its display on the grounds of violent content and subersivos for some forms of thinking
- The book Night of Tlatelolco (1971) by Elena Poniatowska is a journalistic work on which is collected testimony from several witnesses and participants in this event.
- The novel The days and years, Luis Gonzalez de Alba, recounts the author’s personal experience (then a member of CNH) before and after the conflict.
- These events are satirizados in the book of Rene Aviles New Utopia and the guerrillas, published in 1973.
- Book of Paco Ignacio Taibo II, “‘68″, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003 ISBN 1-58322-608-7.
- The novel “Regina: two in October not forgotten” by Antonio Velasco Pineapple.
- The Tlatelolco Massacre in Mexico by Ronald L. Ecker (English).
- The Swiss film maker Richard Dindo Neither forgiveness or oblivion … [1]
- The novel Square Luis Spota tells a fictional story of the murder of a student.
- The small book Night of Santo Tomas, written by Dr. Igor de Leon, tells a little of the facts disclosed in the 68 Mexican, taking blood and fire of Helmet St. Thomas.
- A man who was in the Mexican army fled to the United States to forget the bloody encounter and the faces of the people, was also part of the staff responsible for throwing dozens of students dead sea.
