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2010-07-28 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by badanov 2010-07-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 First report I recall in a while with murder count only in single digits.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-07-28 07:29|| 2010-07-28 07:29|| Front Page Top

#2 During the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, a whole bunch of American revolutionary radicals went down there hoping to start riots and chaos, joining Mexican radicals intent on the same.

(The following removes the 'Dept of Truthiness' efforts to portray the radicals as harmless and just minding their own business. Yeah, and William Ayers was just an 'activist', too.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre

"The government massacre took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City. The violence occurred ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics celebrations in Mexico City.

"Estimates of the death toll range from thirty to a thousand, with eyewitnesses reporting hundreds of dead. According to the reports of the head of the Federal Directorate of Security 1345 people were arrested on October 2.

"About 10,000 people had assembled for a demonstration. Around 6:30 P.M., 5,000 soldiers, 200 tanks and trucks surrounded the plaza. Witnesses to the event claim that the bodies were first removed in ambulances and later military officials came and piled up bodies, not knowing if they were dead or alive, into the military trucks."

This was how the PRI prevented a possible civil war in Mexico. Likely, if PRI returns to power, they might be a tad more forceful about the drug cartels. Right now, PRI controls the lower house, but PAN controls the upper chamber.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-28 14:28|| 2010-07-28 14:28|| Front Page Top

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