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- During the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, 10,000 students gathered in a residential area called Tlatelolco to peacefully protest their nation's one-party government and lack of political freedom. In response, the police and the military cold-bloodedly shot and bayoneted to death an estimated 325 unarmed Mexican youths.
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Elena Poniatowska's best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco (The night of Tlatelolco, the English translation was entitled "Massacre in Mexico"). In 1969, Mexican rock band Pop Music Team , launched the single "Tlatelolco" but was heavily censored by the government after a few days of airplay.
CHRISTOPHER HARRIS. University of Liverpool. This article considers Elena Poniatowska's La noche de Tlatelolco. [Massacre in Mexico] as an example of documentary narrative. It exam ines the narrative strategies she uses to articulate a tripartite interpreta tion of the events of 2 October 1968.
Feb 3, 2020 · From 1968 to the missing 43 – why Mexico's dead and disappeared refuse to go away | Cities | The Guardian. Soldiers crouch in the Tlatelolco district of Mexico City during the night of violence...
Feb 1, 1971 · Journalist Elena Poniatowska understood the significance of the tragedy and quickly went to work collecting the testimony of people who were there. In her 1971 book, La Noche de Tlatelolco (in English retitled Massacre in Mexico), she weaves together hundreds of eye-witness accounts to create a tapestry of horror.
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Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco (The night of Tlatelolco, the English translation was entitled "Massacre in Mexico") about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her left wing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess".
Arts. Culture magazines. Massacre in Mexico. views updated. Massacre in Mexico. by Elena Poniatowska. THE LITERARY WORK. A testimonial account of the student movement in Mexico City from July 22 to October 31, 1968; published in Spanish (as La noche de Tiatelolco) in 1971, in English in 1975, SYNOPSIS.
Aug 3, 2018 · At once testimony and fiction, the book tells the story of an admirable yet cantankerous woman who fought in the Mexican Revolution, whom Poniatowska discovered one morning when Jesusa was cursing...
