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    What's Changed Since Mexico's Bloody Crackdown On 1968 Student Protests?

    Fifty years ago, government forces opened fire on a student-led protest in Mexico City. Some say the repression opened a path for democratic change; others say a legacy of impunity has endured.
    by Carrie Kahn Oct 02, 2018 3 minutes
    Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, center, stands Tuesday with Ana Ignacia Rodríguez Marquez, a former leader of the student movement of 1968, at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, at the Tres Culturas square in Mexico City.

    The following story is part of an ongoing NPR series remembering the cultural and political upheaval of the year 1968.

    Fifty years ago this week, government forces in Mexico fired on thousands of student protesters gathered in a public square in the capital. Scores, and possibly hundreds, died. Like many other worldwide movements of the 1960s, Mexico's students were demanding greater freedom and democracy.

    Huge marches took place throughout the summer of 1968. In one that nearly filled the expansive Zocalo plaza in downtown

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