39 years ago today, hundreds — perhaps thousands — of student protesters were murdered by their government in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, center of the Tlatelolco neighborhood in Mexico City. Most of the dead — the “disappeared” — were never recovered by their families and nearly 40 years later, the Mexican government still refuses to punish the perpetrators or look for retribution for the victims’ families.

On this October 2nd, let us not forget what happened on that October 2, 1968, when peaceful protesters died exercising their right to manifest dissent.

You can see more of our coverage of stories related to the Tlatelolco Massacre here.

¡Dos de octubre no se olvida!

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