US EditionRemembering the Tlatelolco Student Massacre of 1968
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The head of government of Mexico City, Clara Brugada Molina, led the solemn act in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, where she reaffirmed the commitment of her administration to justice, memory and democratic freedoms, calling for an international call for peace and human rights, calling for the cessation of violence in the world and condemning genocide.At the beginning of her speech, the head of government highlighted the historical and political…
Remembering the Tlatelolco student massacre of 1968
The Tlatelolco student massacre of 1968 — one of the most pivotal events in modern Mexican history, one that the renowned National Security Archive organization has called “Mexico’s Tiananmen Square” — all began with a fracas between two rival public vocational high schools that erupted into an out-and-out brawl in a Mexico City marketplace built for the upcoming 1968 Olympics. The next day, riot police arrived at the two schools, wielding clubs…
Mexico City. Committee 68 took to the streets again, 57 years later to commemorate the student massacre of October 2, 1968 in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas of Tlatelolco at the hands of members of the Army. On this occasion they added, among their demands, the defense of Palestine and the demand that an end be put to Israel’s military offensive in Gaza “The silence against the genocides is complicity”, read in the banner supported by the member…
Hundreds of protesters began the march in the framework of the 57th anniversary of the Massacre of Tlatelolco, which took place on a day like today, October 2, 1968. Collectives of students, seeking mothers...
Mexico City. For the first time in its history, the plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) kept a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the repression of October 2, 1968, which occurred in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas of Tlatelolco. At the end of this Thursday’s session, Minister Lenia Batres proposed to pay tribute to the people who lost their lives during the student demonstration, in order to claim this episode…
Diego Rodríguez RuizOn the occasion of the march to commemorate the 57th anniversary of the massacre of students in Plaza de las Tres Culturas, in Tlatelolco, several contingents began to gather at that point in the capital to march towards the Zócalo of Mexico City. The march will be headed by the Committee 68 Pro Democratic Freedoms, it is planned to start the walk at 4:00 p.m. The march in honor of the victims on October 2, 1968 will advance …
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