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Nov 01, 2018
4 minutes
Reviews editor: Vanessa Baird
Words: Peter Whittaker, Jo Lateu
A Massacre in Mexico
by Anabel Hernández, translated by John Washington
(Verso, ISBN 9781788731485)
On 26 September 2014, a group of male students set out in a convoy of buses bound for Mexico City. They were travelling from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College to attend a demonstration commemorating the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre in which Mexican police and military killed hundreds of unarmed protesters. their convoy was repeatedly attacked, six people were killed, many injured and 43 disappeared, presumed murdered. As news of the killings spread, the government began a campaign of lies, obfuscation and ‘confessions’ obtained by
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