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Nearly four decades after the fact, the people of Mexico still feel the weight of the events of October 2, 1968 in their souls. In the years after the Massacre of Tlatelolco — crowning event in Mexico’s own obscure “dirty war” — the government has made numerous attempts to downplay what happened in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. As student protesters and sympathizers disappeared, rumors of the army having dumped bodies into the ocean were on the lips of many, and families mourned the not so mysterious disappearances of their loved ones.

Nearly a year and a half after Mexico’s “dirty war” report was made public comes a new revelation: an architect has come forward to say that she knew of the existence of skeletal remains of 1968 student protesters in the Plaza, where she was working on a project.

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