EditoriaL: Half a century after the genocide in Tlatelolco, we continue asking for punishment
By Armando García My legs no longer respond to me to walk again through the Plaza of the Three Cultures, but my hands and fingers skillfully type to remember and pay tribute to the dead who fell half a century ago in Tlatelolco. The poet Carlos Jiménez, said that there was no need to go around, and less now, fifty years and more than five hundred from Tenochtitlan to the Three Cultures. Half a century ago, thousands of young people gathered at the Plaza de las Tres Cultures in Tlatelolco in Mexico City to demand what was socially just for the Mexican people. And the government's response was to massacre them by the military forces that swore to defend their people, but they became executioners following orders from their commander in chief. 50 years after the worst genocide, savage and bloodthirsty on the night of October 2, 1968, I remember the words of the poet Leopoldo Ayala "I Accused" and those of Pablo Neruda, "I ask for punishment", and co...