https://padlet.com/carol_07ro/408pi33j9aha Tlatelolco en-us 2018-08-31 00:30:02 UTC 2018-10-03 15:50:55 UTC hello@padlet.com carol_07ro https://padlet.com/carol_07ro/408pi33j9aha/wish/288693933 was the killing of students and civilians by military and police on October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City. The events are considered part of the Mexican Dirty War, when the government used its forces to suppress political opposition. 

]]> 2018-10-03 15:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/carol_07ro/408pi33j9aha/wish/288693933 carol_07ro https://padlet.com/carol_07ro/408pi33j9aha/wish/288701878 The time, the government and the media in Mexico claimed that government forces had been provoked by protesters shooting at them, but government documents made public since 2000 suggest that snipers had been employed by the government. According to US national security archives, Kate Doyle, a Senior Analyst of US policy in Latin America, documented the deaths of 44 people;however, estimates of the death toll range the actual number from 300 to 400, with eyewitnesses reporting hundreds dead]]> 2018-10-03 15:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/carol_07ro/408pi33j9aha/wish/288701878 carol_07ro https://padlet.com/carol_07ro/408pi33j9aha/wish/288720374 About the social and political environment that existed in the country during those years, which motivated the accelerated growth of the 1968 student movement.

A moment that also explains the strong reaction of the government of then President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.]]> 2018-10-03 15:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/carol_07ro/408pi33j9aha/wish/288720374