Mexico: The anniversary of the Tlatelolco Massacre

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 

PROGRAM #10917 12:00 PM PT 

Mexico Edition. 

October 2 marks the anniversary of the Tlatelolco Massacre, a traumatic event that signaled the beginning of Mexico’s democratization process. How is it remembered today in Mexico? It is also the International Day of Nonviolence. What does that mean for the country? Meanwhile, in the United States, a Mexican immigrant was shot and killed at an ICE detention center in Dallas, adding to nearly twenty immigrant deaths in ICE custody. How is President Sheinbaum’s government responding? And what has happened to the members of the Global Sumud Flotilla in the last few hours?

Guests: David Peña, human rights attorney, Mexico City, MX; Chelis Lopez, reporter and program host, Radio Bilingüe, San Francisco, CA; Felix Hernandez Gamundi, survivor of the Tlatelolco massacre, general coordinator and spokesperson, Comité 68, Mexico City, MX; excerpts from recent statements by Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo; and former director of Mexico’s National Institute of Migration, Francisco Garduño Yáñez.

Photo: Andrés Barrios/Wikimedia Commons

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