Ten days before the opening ceremony of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, uniformed soldiers and rooftop snipers opened fire on student protesters in a plaza in the capital city’s Tlatelolco neighborhood. Hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators, who were rallying against the country’s semi-auth...
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