Tens of thousands of people accompanied the survivors and relatives of the more than 300 people murdered that fateful day by the military and the complacency of the government of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.
It was before a world that experienced it all, as Mexico was at the center of the 1868 Olympics, which were the first games in Latin America.
Félix Hernández Gamundi, a survivor and former leader of the student movement, said at the mass rally in the capital’s Zócalo that the massacre of October 2, 1968 represented a great explosion of conscience among the youth and the Mexican people.
“Tlatelolco is a place of memory because the old regime marked the beginning of the end there,” he said. At the rally they reiterated their demand that the perpetrators be brought to justice, even if they have already died.
Hernández Gamundi claimed that in Tlatelolco the government “showed everything it was capable of and everything it was not capable of.”
She was unable to listen to the people and respond to the people’s demands. Given the strength of a movement that had grown impetuous and defiant, and the awakening of a new consciousness, a new way of doing politics began, and the old regime began. go downstairs.
In front of the National Palace, he also referred to the other violent events that have marked the country: June 10, 1971, the dirty war and the ongoing PRI attacks. The history of complaints is very long and so we reach September 26, 2014 with the night of Iguala, in Guerrero and the 43 normalists.
All these crimes, he said, are a great wound in the hearts and conscience of Mexicans, since even today they remain unpunished and this has led the country on a path that continues to this day, in which we continue to face new challenges to defend freedom.
If we do not defeat this impunity, the violence will continue and, as in the case of Ayotzinapa, this fight also calls for the Minister of Defense to release the documents she has from Tlatelolco.
Before the rally, the prestigious Committee 68, already made up of older adults, once again led the takeover of the streets commemorating the student massacre from the Plaza de las Tres Culturas to the Zócalo.
The mobilization began minutes after 4:00 p.m. local time, the time of the events, with the support of academic institutions such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Metropolitan Autonomous University, the Autonomous University of the City of Mexico City Polytechnic Institute National, among others; as well as civic and trade union associations.
Those gathered in the square rejected the infiltrated masked groups throwing Molotov cocktails, but failed to break the peaceful content of the tribute to the victims of Tlatelolco.
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