Thousands march to mark anniversary of Mexico's Tlatelolco massacre

[Judi Lynn]

Thousands march to mark anniversary of Mexico's Tlatelolco massacre

Saturday, October 2, 2004


(10-02) 20:53 PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) --

Thousands of students, union leaders and radical activists flooded the streets of Mexico's capital Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of the Oct. 2, 1968, massacres of protesters in Tlatelolco plaza.

Unlike in years past, the demonstrations were largely peaceful. Protesters gathered in Tlatelolco, then marched 1.5 miles to the main square of Mexico City's historic downtown district.
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Protesters carried banners and waved signs demanding President Vicente Fox bring to justice those responsible for the massacre, in which snipers and army troops fired on a pro-democracy student demonstration that came 10 days before Mexico City began hosting the Olympics.
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While the government has never released firm figures on those killed at Tlatelolco, estimates range from 38 to several hundred people.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/10/02/international1737EDT6008.DTL

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Why weren't we told about the struggle going on in Mexico WHILE it was happening? I haven't heard of many of the events we are starting to read about until Vicente Fox was legally elected President of Mexico and started trying to cleanse the wounds by making actually addressing these events as colossal mistakes and vowing Mexico wouldn't go down that path again.

Wish his values could rub off on his little (incoherent in two languages) pal, _{George W. Bush.}

[Kagemusha]

1. Why? Because the place was run tighter than Baathi Iraq.

Resisting US power required a lot of work after all, so under the cover of preserving Mexican independence, all was permitted. It's not that complicated.

[struggle4progress]

2. kick

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