Welcome to the Terrordome by Dave Zirin

Author:Dave Zirin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2010-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

Statues honoring Smith and Carlos unveiled in California in October 2005 (AP/George Nikitin)

Echeverría’s Olympic cleanup was responsible for the deaths, not panicked police, rogue officers, or indiscriminate trigger-happy shooters. Recently declassified documents paint a picture of a massacre as cold and methodical as Echeverría’s instructions. Cold is to be very kind. On August 22, Echeverría had said, “The Government is most willing to meet with the representatives of teachers and students…connected with the present problems.” But despite his willingness to meet in August, by October, Echeverría was ready to unleash hell.

As Kate Doyle, director of the Mexico Documentation Project, describes,When the shooting stopped, hundreds of people lay dead or wounded, as Army and police forces seized surviving protesters and dragged them away. Although months of nation-wide student strikes had prompted an increasingly hard-line response…no one was prepared for the bloodbath that Tlatelolco became. More shocking still was the cover-up that kicked in as soon as the smoke cleared. Eye-witnesses to the killings pointed to the President’s “security” forces, who entered the plaza bristling with weapons, backed by armored vehicles. But the government pointed back, claiming that extremists and Communist agitators had initiated the violence. Who was responsible for Tlatelolco? The Mexican people have been demanding an answer ever since.

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