Mexico commemorates the student massacre of 1968
October 2, 1968 marked the beginning of a transformation of social paradigms, led by the young generation, the students, who suffered a terrible massacre for defending democracy. Mexico commemorates its memory on the 56th anniversary. teleSUR
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00:00Claudia Sheinbaum signed her first presidential decree recognizing on behalf of the Mexican
00:05state that the acts of violence perpetrated on October 2, 1968, against the student movement
00:12were crimes against humanity.
00:14From Mexico City, Antonio Aranda gives us the details.
00:18The student struggle of 1964 marked the beginning of a deep democratic change in Mexico, but
00:24it was marked by violence and serious human rights violations.
00:29Tens of thousands of young students demonstrated peacefully in defense of civil liberties and
00:33democracy.
00:36Pablo Gómez, a current federal official, offered his testimony as a political prisoner
00:41of the student movement.
00:45The message and objective of the movement was very much picked up.
00:54The democratic freedoms, part of those who picked up and have been picking up since then
00:58that message, that practice, that rebellion, that struggle, is the fourth transformation.
01:07Claudia Sheinbaum fulfilled the slogan, October 2 is not forgotten, and dedicated her first
01:11conference to commemorate this student movement.
01:16Today, in the first morning conference of the people and maintaining the continuity
01:21of the fourth transformation, we will dedicate it to October 2.
01:31President Sheinbaum emphasized that the assassination of the young students at the hand of the Diaz-Ordaz
01:35government in the Tricultural Square in Tlatelolco in 1964 paved the way for the democratic transformation
01:41of Mexico.
01:46It was a movement at that time, and if you look at it, their demands were for no repression
01:50and democracy.
01:52Those young people later paved the way for the democratic struggle in the country and
01:56what we are living today.
01:58So let's hope that the youth will always be close to the people.
02:02As they do every year, the survivors of the 1964 National Strike Council gathered in the
02:12Tricultural Square to commemorate 56 years of these tragic events.
02:19Let freedom continue to expand in Mexico, that there be more democracy, more participation
02:25and above all, that there be justice for the workers and the exploited people.
02:32The people marched to the capital Zócalo and the students recognized that the struggle
02:37for democracy and human rights continues.
02:46It is worrying that year after year, we have the same demands, and now we are joining the
02:50issue of the 43 disappeared.
02:55The current government expressed its commitment to offer guarantees of non-repetition of events
03:00such as those of 1964, which it considered to be serious human rights violations.
03:07For this reason, President Claude Sheinbaum instructed the publication of a decree containing
03:11a public apology on behalf of the Mexican state to the victims of the act against humanity
03:15committed on October 2, 1964.