October 2. 3-oct-16

October 2

What is remembered on October 2?

The student movement of 1968 was a social movement in addition to students from the UNAM, IPN, and various universities, attended by teachers, intellectuals, housewives, workers and professionals in Mexico City and was repressed on October 2 1968 by the government of Mexico in the "massacre in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco" and finally dissolved in December of that year. The fact was committed by the paramilitary group Olimpia Battalion, the Federal Security Directorate (DFS), the then secret police and the Mexican army against a demonstration called by National Strike elConsejo, guideline organ movement. According to what was said by himself in 19691 and Luis Echeverria Alvarez, responsible for the killing was Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

The Special Prosecutor for Social and Political Past (SPO) government of Mexico Movements concluded in 2006 in its Historical Report to the society mexicana3 that the student movement "marked a turning point in the political times of Mexico, was" independent, contestatario and resorted to civil resistance "3 and was strengthened" with the liberation and democratization demands that dominated the world's imagination. "3 the same report concluded that during movement the Mexican government implemented" its control mechanisms and deterrence that used to use against social (...) dissent characterized it as subversive and instead of finding ways to address the legitimate demands, he chose to suppress and annihilate its leadership and the sector considered more combative. "3 so he turned to illegal detentions , mistreatment, torture, persecution, enforced disappearances, espionage, criminalization, killings and extrajudicial executions, characterizing prosecution said the use of the institutional strength of the Mexican state as "criminal" 4. In fact was active counseling, presence and intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States5 6 under the LITEMPO.7 8 operation

Some victims of such actions attempted to characterize the slaughter of Tlatelolco before national and international courts as a crime against humanity and an genocidio9 October 11, a claim that was supported by the prosecution mexicana3 but rejected by their tribunales tried to also bring the perpetrators and intellectuals of the facts before the justice 

To date it has not been able to clarify exactly the official number of killed, wounded, missing and imprisoned. The official source at the time reported 20 dead, but some current research [which?] Conclude that the dead could reach several hundreds and responsible directly to the government of Mexico.13 The correspondent of the BBC in Mexico, Julian Petiffer, who witnessed the events, he said in a noticioso14 office that "in a remarkable demonstration of stupidity, brutality, or both together, the army and police passed fire submachine by thousands of peaceful protesters and people who were passing through the place .. . "and estimated the number of students killed in at least 200.15 Members of the National Strike Council provided the British journalist John Rodda the figure of 325 dead, a number that Rodda not confirmed before publication in the newspaper the Guardian, 16 but which he collated with data from Military Hospital to conclude that 267 were killed and 1,200 heridos.17 Research of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States has only managed to identify 34 muertos.18 journalist Sergio Sarmiento, who participated in the movement, says that if there are more dead or missing in the incident, in any case, no relatives or acquaintances have appeared to reclamarlos.19 the commemorative plaque of Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City lists only 20 names of fallen. According to correspondence between Alfonso Corona del Rosal, head of the Department of the Federal District and Secretary of National Defense General Marcelino Garcia Barragan, there were 43 dead, including including a child and four soldiers. In a video shown as a child soldier it covers bullets and what happened 16