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Mexico City, Oct 2 (EFE).- People in Mexico City marched Saturday to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre.At least 300 people were killed when soldiers from the Mexican Armed Forces opened fire on protestors demonstrating in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco area of Mexico City on Oct. 2, 1968. (Camera: AMERICA NERI). SHOT LIST: PEOPLE MARCH TO COMMEMORATE THE 53RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE TLATELOLCO MASSACRE OF 1968, IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. SOUND BITE: ONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS, LUIS PUÑÓN (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: I believe that there is no political will from this man (the current president Andrés Manuel López Obrador) and even less from the previous ones. Many of the people responsible for this massacre are still alive and they (the authorities) know it, but they want to deceive us by saying that they are still investigating.
Mexico City, Aug 13 (EFE) .- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador apologized for the "catastrophe" caused by the Spanish conquest on Friday while commemorating the 500th anniversary of the taking of Tenochtitlan by the troops of Hernán Cortés .(Camera: AMÉRCIA NERI)SOUND BITES: MEXICAN PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR (IN SPANISH)TRANSLATION:"We remember the fall of the great Tecnochtitlan and offer forgiveness to the victims of the catastrophe caused by the Spanish military occupation of Mesoamerica and the rest of the territory of the current Mexican Republic,"
Mexico City, Jun 10 (EFE).- Thousands of people, including students, teachers and social organizations, marched Thursday in Mexico City to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the "Halconazo" massacre, when students demonstrators were killed during the Mexican Dirty War. The mobilization began at 4:00 p.m. local time near the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), where the massacre took place, and ended in the Zócalo of the Mexican capital. (Camera: ULISES ANDRADE).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE MARCH TO COMMEMORATE 50 YEARS OF THE HALCONAZO MASSACRE IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
Mexican Senators meet with the relatives of nine Mormon women and children who were massacred in northern Mexico last month. IMAGES
Protest turns violent as Mexicans march to remember the day 51 years ago when army troops massacred hundreds of people at a peaceful protest in the Plaza of Three Cultures, in central Mexico City's Tlatelolco neighborhood. IMAGES