Thousands of Students March to Mark Anniversary of 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre The Associated Press
go to original October 3, 2016

Protestors walk behind a banner decrying impunity, during a march commemorating the anniversary of the Tlatelolco Massacre, in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Every year Mexico marks the anniversary of the 1968 massacre where students and civilians were killed by the military and police. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

Several thousand students marched through Mexico City on Sunday to mark the anniversary of an Oct. 2, 1968, massacre in which troops fired on protesters at the capital's Tlatelolco Plaza, killing an unknown number.

Violence that often marks the annual demonstration was avoided Sunday, with police guarding the march route and steel and wood barriers protecting businesses that are often vandalized.

This year's march comes as radical rural teachers' college students have battled authorities, blocking highways, hijacking and burning vehicles and kidnapping police in the western state of Michoacan, to demand teaching jobs and freedom for their jails colleagues.

Paula Rodriguez was one of the teachers' college students from Michoacan marching Sunday.

"We have been subject to repression," Rodriguez said, "because the government doesn't want the teachers' colleges to exist."

The government has said it cannot offer graduates of the colleges guaranteed jobs, because recent reforms require applicants for teaching jobs to pass tests.

Also Sunday, one of the top leaders of the 1968 student movement, writer and columnist Luis Gonzalez de Alba, was reportedly found dead at his home. No further details were available.

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