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Student activism in Mexico was traditionally largely confined to issues dealing with their circumstances while studying at university. There were two strikes at the National Polytechnic Institute in 1942 and 1956, as well as a strike at the National Teachers' School (Escuela Nacional de Maestras) in 1950, organized by the Federación de Estudiantes y Campesinos Socialistas de México (FECSUM). [3]
The massacre followed a series of large demonstrations called the Mexican Movement of 1968 and is considered part of the Mexican Dirty War, when the U.S.-backed Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) government violently repressed political and social opposition.
The battalion played an active part in these events, orchestrating a simulated confrontation near the armed student movement and the Mexican military. To that effect, the battalion had, in addition to its members mobilized throughout the plaza and neighboring buildings, snipers posted beginning the morning of October 2 in the plaza and the ...
Mexico's president issued a formal apology for the brutal repression and killing of student protesters 56 years ago in the capital's Tlatelolco district.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — For the first time, a Mexican government body acknowledged on Monday that the massacre of student protesters at the capital's Plaza of the Three Cultures on Oct. 2, 1968, was ...
CNH called for a silent pacifist demonstration to controvert Mexican Government allegations of violence of the movement and the silence made by President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz in his Fourth Government Inform on September 1, 1968, about the students and the movement. So the demonstration was entirely silent and with Mexican flags instead strike ...
October 2 – around 10,000 university and high school students gathered in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas to protest the government's actions and listen peacefully to speeches then the national guard attacked the demonstrations thus generating the Tlatelolco massacre.
Whereas the 1968 convention played out in an era of network television, where political conventions could command the attention of a much broader and diverse range of Americans, the media ...