Tlatelolco massacre

On October 2, 1968, in Mexico City, in Tlatelolco, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas,
a terrible massacre occurred in which more than 300 people died. Governing body
of higher education founded on August 2, 1968 by members of schools on strike,
specifically students from UNAM, IPN, El Colegio de México, Escuela Agrícola
Chapingo, Universidad Iberoamericana and Universidad La Salle (Mexico), Normal
de Maestros . School, National School of Anthropology and History and other
universities in the interior of the Republic; Attempts to subdue the CNH led to the
bloody repression of the protest movement, which had resisted for months and
questioned the country's social and economic policies and actions, as well as calls
for democracy.
The student movement of 1968 was also social, since in addition to the
participation of the universities, secondary and vocational students, teachers,
workers, housewives, union members and intellectuals from Mexico City and the
interior of the Republic also participated, among them. others. Their objective was
to infiltrate the demonstration and reach the Chihuahua building, where the
movement's spokespersons and several journalists were located. That day the
students presented six demands that were a consequence of human rights
violations committed by the police and the TNI since the beginning of the student
action; especially in response to the occupation of the school by the military and
police based on the justification they found in the fight between students of SMK 5
and the private Isaac Ochoterena secondary school, on July 23, 1968. A few
minutes before six In the afternoon of that day, the protest was coming to an end
when a helicopter began to fly over the square. From there flares were fired, this
being the signal for the snipers of the Olimpia Battalion to begin opening fire on the
gathered people; students, mothers, children, teachers, workers. In the midst of the
chaos, all the civilians gathered there ran through the Plaza de las Tres Culturas
and around the Chihuahua building, trying to protect themselves. Protesters who
managed to escape the shooting took refuge in apartments in nearby buildings, but
this did not save them from the soldiers; Without a court order, the soldiers broke
into all the apartments to arrest the young people who were hiding there. For its
part, on November 27, 2001, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH)
addressed Recommendation 26/2001 to the then President Constitutional Court of
the United Mexican States, Vicente Fox Quesada (2000-2006), with the request
that his government accept the ethical and political obligation to manage
institutional performance within the framework of respect for the human rights that
the Mexican legal system recognizes.