October 16, 1998
Thousands March in Mexico City to Remember Students Slain in '68
Thousands of students and their supporters marched to the Plaza of the Three Cultures in the Tlatelolco district here on October 2 to commemorate the killing of hundreds of students at the site 30 years earlier.
Shrouded in secrecy for more than a quarter of a century, the massacre is now viewed as a watershed in the country's history, a day on which a more democratic Mexico was born. Flags across the capital flew at half-staff to mark
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