Massacre in Mexico
by Elena Poniatowska
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appears in About Mexico.
"A heartbreaking chronicle. . .A week before the world's youth began competing in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, an estimated 325 Mexican boys and girls, among some 10,000 students gathered in peaceful protest against earlier police repression, were shot and bayoneted to death in cold blood by Army troops and police. That tragedy, which makes th...
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