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Ten days before the 1968 Olympics opened in Mexico City, Mexican students took to the streets to demand democratic reforms from the PRI government. On October 2, 1968, as hundreds of unarmed students marched to the Plaza of Three Cultures in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, army troops opened fire. Official reports put the death toll at 40, but other reports estimated casualties at 300 dead with hundreds more injured. In this picture, soldiers hold students stripped to their underwear at gunpoint. In June 2002, more than 30 years after the Tlatelolco Massacre, President Vicente Fox released secret police files and named a special prosecutor to determine the role of former Minister of the Interior and President Luis Echeverria in the massacre.
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