In Mexico, a massacre that nobody can forget!

Mexico also experienced a traumatic experience year in 1968. In October 2^nd, thousands of students protested in the city of Tlatelolco and the result was a tragedy: between 300 and 500 people were assassinated by the Army and the police in their repression to the manifestation.

The country was seen a not very common student movement at 1968 with protests that were becoming bigger and bigger since the beginning of the year. Few days before the inauguration of the Olympic Games that took place in Mexico City, 15,000 people participated of a big manifestation against the educational system, first, and protesting against almost everything after that.

The police and the Army were just looking at the manifestation until the end of the afternoon. Then, suddenly, started to shoot against the crowd. The target was everybody, including children that were in the square. Humdreds of people were dead and thousand of students were jailed. Many disappeared.

But the responsible for the massacre remain unknown, forty-four years late. The president of Mexico, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, said years later that he was the only responsible and that he did it to contain the “red wave” (communist movement).

The guilds remain officially unknown. But everybody knows who are them.

A lot of different things happened in 1968, even in Mexico. And they are still important today. Like the Tlatelolco massacre.

Photo taken of the scene in Plaza de Las Tres Culturas by an unknown government photographer