Summary

These two images portray a report by the CIA on the student protest but also represents soldiers gathered during the massacre in La Plaza de las tres Culturas in Mexico City.During the Cold War, many acts of violence and poverty had occurred in Mexico.Events, like the Cuban Revolution had many consequences, while politics influenced the Mexican government's foreign policy.Mexico had troubles with others,but furthermore the government was the one that brought this tragedy of violence to even their own nation.La Plaza de Las Tres Culturas in Mexico had been something very brutal and when it was questioned to the government things that were said shows how everything had been out of control.”Thirty years after the massacre, the Mexican government continues to deny its people basic facts about what happened -- refusing to open Army and police records to public scrutiny on the grounds of "national security," denying Congress the right to hear testimony by agents of the state who were present at Tlatelolco”(1).When reading this, it can be seen that no one cares about the safety of these protesters, but somehow hides its true meaning on the reason why this act of violence occurred to many people who had been physically injured and murdered from this massacure.Cubans had big part and was an influence on these protestors from the beginning, according to this second image which portrays a brief summary by a CIA on the troubles.Students from different school such as the University of Puebla and the University of Veracruz were affected by a domino effect.Elections were the reason why things “had taken a turn for the worse”(2,pg 25).While this massacre was very dangerous many students sacrificed themselves due to what they believed in, “Like the North American anti-war protestors, the Mexican students who marched before the 1968 Olympics, and the jubilant Czechoslovakians who celebrated the Prague Spring before the Soviet tanks rolled in, today the Cubans who sacrificed themselves in pursuit of becoming new men seem so very young, and so very distant”(Dawson 218).Concluding this La Plaza de Las Culturas was a big part of the Cold War in which till this day we won't be sure of the truth of Tlatelolco.