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Massacre in Mexico

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If you are interested in Mexico, deeply interested, this is an important book by Elena Poniatowska, one of the country's most distinguished writers. Four decades later, in the midst of a bloody drug war rife with accusations of military human rights abuses, torture and assassinations, the questions surrounding the 1968 massacre at Tlatelolco persist.

The literature Massacre in Mexico is a unique kind of animal. It does not try to make the reader fall in love with a swooping storyline or care for any deep multi-faceted characters, as it is a collaboration of first-hand accounts of one of Mexico's most horrifying tragedies. It instead confuses and bewilders with details that contradict its own government statement regarding the horrors of October 1968 Student Movement massacre. Readers may be alarmed at Elena Poniatowaska's tone as it portrays the government as a body that rolls out conspiracies as easily as it would murder 325 of its unarmed civilians. The students attempted to peacefully demonstrate against nation's one-party government and lack of political freedom.

This is the best book I have found on this topic. However, the interviews get a little boring. I actually never made it to the end of the book because it was getting redundant. I would like someone to write about this topic in a more narrative form.