Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Taibo, Paco Ignacio, II, 1949- author.

Title '68 : the Mexican autumn of the Tlatelolco massacre / Paco Ignacio Taibo, II. ; translated from the Spanish by Donald Nicholson-Smith.

Publication Info. New York : Seven Stories Press, 2019.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  378.198 TAIBO    Recently Returned
Description 145 pages ; 21 cm
Summary "A firsthand account of the shocking Tlatelolco Massacre, still denied by the Mexican government. 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. Hundreds more were arrested, and imprisoned for years. Yet these events are nowhere to be found in official histories: that very night the bodies were collected and trucked away and the cobblestones washed clean, and government denial of all involvement began. To this day no one has been held accountable for the official acts of savagery. One member of the crowd that night, Paco Taibo, would become an international literary figure; '68 is his account of the events of October 2, and of the student movement that preceded them, available for the first time in English, with a new epilogue by the author. In provocative, anecdotal prose, Taibo here claims for history "one more of the many unredeemed and sleepless ghosts that live in our lands.""-- Provided by publisher.
"A firsthand account of the shocking Tlatelolco Massacre, still denied by the Mexican government. 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. Hundreds more were arrested, and imprisoned for years. Yet these events are nowhere to be found in official histories: that very night the bodies were collected and trucked away and the cobblestones washed clean, and government denial of all involvement began. To this day no one has been held accountable for the official acts of savagery. One member of the crowd that night, Paco Taibo, would become an international literary figure; '68 is his account of the events of October 2, and of the student movement that preceded them, in the first English-language translation, with a new epilogue by the author. In provocative, anecdotal prose, Taibo here claims for history "one more of the many unredeemed and sleepless ghosts that live in our lands.""-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Student movements -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History -- 20th century.
Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico City, Mexico, 1968.
HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico.
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative.
Student movements. (OCoLC)fst01135954
Mexico -- Mexico City. (OCoLC)fst01206137
Tlatelolco Massacre (Mexico City, Mexico : 1968) (OCoLC)fst01755643
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title 68. English
1968
Sixty-eight
ISBN 9781609808495 (paperback)
1609808495
-->
Add a Review