Luis Echeverría
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Luis Echeverría Álvarez was a Mexican lawyer, academic, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as the 57th president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976. Previously, E
Echeverría, c. 1970-1976
Echeverría (third row, fifth from left) with his 6th grade class, c.1933
Echeverría early in his political career, c.1940s-1950s
Echeverría as Secretary of the Interior in 1965
Tlatelolco massacre
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The Tlatelolco massacre was a military massacre committed by the Mexican Armed Forces against the students of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the National Polytechnic Institute and other
Luis Echeverría
…journalists, politicians, and activists were subjected to censorship, arbitrary arrests, torture, and extrajudicial killings. This culminated with the Tlatelolco massacre of 2 October 1968, which ruptured the Mexican student movement; Díaz Ordaz, Echeverría, and Secretary of Defense Marcelino Garcia Barragán have been…
Marcelino Perelló, a leader of student groups at a press conference. Mexico, October 6, 1968.
Students' demonstration, Mexico City, August 27, 1968
Students in a burned bus
Mexican soldiers at the streets. July 30, 1968