MEXICO CITY — When soldiers massacred as many as 300 people at a student protest in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco plaza on Oct. 2, 1968, the killers wore uniforms. Today, students in Mexico say they are still under attack, but now from thugs, drug cartels, paramilitaries or rapists. Back in 1968, “finishing a university degree was a guarantee of getting a secure job. In 1968 students struggled against a monolithic government that presided over a booming economy and was at the height of its power. “What happened to the 43 is the Oct. 2 of today.”But today, the brutality is of a different kind.

Source: National Post October 01, 2018 04:07 UTC