68

Taibo II, Paco Ignacio

ISBN 10: 849645309X / ISBN 13: 9788496453098

Edité par Traficantes de Sueños (Historia; 2), Madrid, 2006

110p., wrps. "68" is a provocative, anecdotal, and analytical reflection on the night of October 2, 1968, when student demonstrators and the Mexican government had a violent confrontation in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained and held without recourse until 1971. This work also features a prologue by Elena Poniatowska. N° de réf. du vendeur 183812

Revue de presse: Now available for the first time in English, Mexican author and essayist Taibo’s beautifully realized memoir of the Oct. 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City documents "The Movement" of students that, at one point, was half a million strong. Taibo begins more than a decade before the massacre, when the movement was inchoate and the "invisible enemy" was purely an intellectual concern. He evokes relationships, passions and arguments lovingly. (Relevant section titles include "Of Women and Mattresses," "And Sometimes We Believe in the Informative Value of Tremors Running Through the Atmosphere" and "In Which the Virtues of the National Anthem Are Rediscovered.") The Cuban revolution and the Vietnamese resistance galvanized democratic idealists across Mexico, and The Movement turned to action: widespread propaganda dispersion, silent demonstrations, flash rallies, community organizing and the 123-day strikes in high schools and universities across the country. Then, as the impact of the student revolt in Paris in May 1968 reverberated throughout the world and governments became increasingly reactive, 200 protesting students were murdered in Tlatelolco Square by government military police, and hundreds more were arrested and jailed. In the days and weeks following, the corpses of the slain students disappeared, the facts were contorted by government-controlled media, and reality turned to myth. Today, over 35 years later, much of the truth remains uncovered, but Taibo’s memoir goes a long way toward setting the record straight.—Publishers Weekly

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : 68
Éditeur : Traficantes de Sueños (Historia; 2), Madrid
Date d'édition : 2006
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : New
Edition : First edition.