| '68: The Mexican Autumn of the Tlatelolco Massacre Contributor(s): Taibo II, Paco Ignacio (Author) |
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ISBN: 1609808495 ISBN-13: 9781609808495 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - History | Modern - 20th Century - Political Science | Comparative Politics |
| Dewey: 378.198 |
| LCCN: 2017061011 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.30 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Mexico City on the night of October 2, 1968, at least two hundred students--among thousands protesting election fraud and campaigning for university reform--were shot dead in a bloody showdown with government troops in Tlatelolco Square. The bodies were collected and trucked away and the cobblestones washed clean. Hundreds more were arrested, and imprisoned for years. To this day, no one has been held accountable for the acts of savagery and these events are nowhere to be found in official histories. One member of the student movement that was crushed that night, Paco Taibo, would become an international literary figure. '68is his account of the events of October 2, and of the student movement that preceded them. In provocative, anecdotal prose, Taibo claims for history "one more of the many unredeemed and sleepless ghosts that live in our lands." |