Plaza of Sacrifices, Mexico ‘68. Review of Elaine Carey's <em>Plaza of Sacrifices. Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico</em> (University of New Mexico Press, 2005)
Resumen
Elaine Carey’s study of the Mexican Student Movement of 1968 and the government’s brutal response to it provides English language readers with their first book-length account of arguably the most important single event of Mexico’s post-Revolutionary history. As Carey convincingly demonstrates, both the massive public demonstrations, which brought hundreds of thousands of Mexican students and sympathizers to the streets and plazas of their nation’s capital, and the government’s shocking reaction, which culminated in the murder of hundreds and the imprisonment of at least a thousand more on October 2 in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco Plaza, transformed Mexican society and politics.
Publicado
2007-01-01
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Reseñas / Reviews