On 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...
A famed writer turns his pen to an infamous episode of "disappeared" Mexican history. The Washington Post - Andrew Ervin Taibo's is an immensely valuable counternarrative to the official history.
\ Andrew ErvinTaibo's is an immensely valuable counternarrative to the official history.\ — The Washington Post\ \