Neighborhood plaza in the
Tlatelolco neighborhood in
Mexico City remembered most for the
massacre of student protestors on October 2nd, 1968.
The student movement had been gaining momentum since its start in July, when a fight between the students of two
Mexico City schools, a college preparatory school and a nearby vocational school, was broken up by the paramilitary riot police called "granaderos". The "granaderos" stopped the fight but in the process politicized a large portion of the student population in
Mexico City.