We Shall Never Forget October 2nd

Today, we remember another anniversary of the massacare at Tlatelolco that sad October 2, 1968.

More than thirty years later and even with efforts from the Fox government to bring justice, this dark part of our history continues to "shine" for its lack of justice. The people who were truly responsible for the events of this date have not been punished and we are still lead to accept the official version of what happened on that day: that the students went to Tlatelolco armed and that "instigators" within the crowd that fired and sparked the massacre.

Nowadays, Echeverría has accepted that the students were not the first to fire and could have perhaps (most surely) not armed. This still doesn't do anything to quiet down all of the other theories that exist. Nor does it explain what role he played back then as secretary of state. So many years and so many theories that perhaps with time it is becoming increasingly difficult to really know what happened that day, how many people died or were "dissapeared" and more importantly why.

October 2 will always be a sad day as we remember all those young students who died that day and how our nation has failed to see its reflection as a corrupt and unjust nation at times. This kind of corruption and lack of justice is still with us to this day. That is why we should not only call for a guarantee that such a repressive massacre does not happen again but also call for a stronger conscience in our country of how to demand transparency and accountability from our public servants.

To the youth of 2005, we still remember how what became so evident 37 years ago, is still with us today.

You can also read the opinion of my friend Hugo following this link:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/lafit/Blog/cns!1plNfzDweWKGBoOWcL5UEe9w!1364.entry