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
Marcelino Perelló, a leader of student groups at a press conference. Mexico, October 6, 1968.
Students' demonstration, Mexico City, August 27, 1968
Mexican soldiers at the streets. July 30, 1968
The Mexican Movement of 1968, also known as the Mexican Student Movement was a social movement composed of a broad coalition of students from Mexico's leading universities that garnered widespread pub
Tlatelolco massacre
…UNAM), the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) and other universities in Mexico. The massacre followed a series of large demonstrations known as 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…
Armored cars at the Zócalo Plaza in Mexico City in 1968
Ciudad Universitaria, site of the UNAM campus, main library