000			01331nam a2200205 4500
010			_a2004003569
020			_a9781583226087
024			_a55516458
050			_aLA428.7
082			_a378.1981
100	1		_aPaco Ignacio Taibo II
245	1		_a'68
260			_bSeven Stories Press
300			_a136 pages
520			_aOn the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out, the cobblestones were washed clean. Detainees were held without recourse until 1971. Official denial of the killing continues even today: In the first week of February 2003, Mexico's Education Secretary Reyes Tamiz ordered a new history textbook that mentions the massacre-Claudia Sierra's History of Mexico: An Analytical Approach-removed from shelves and classrooms. (Public outcry led Tamiz to reverse his decision days later.) No one has yet been held accountable for the official acts of savagery. With provocative, anecdotal, and analytical prose, Taibo claims for history "one more of the many unredeemed and sleepless ghosts that live in our lands."
650			_aGovernment
650			_aPolitics
650			_aHistory - Mexico
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