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Police Clash with Students at Vocacional 5
A brawl between students from the Vocational High School No. 5 (IPN) and the Isaac Ochoterena Preparatory school escalates into a violent confrontation with the Granaderos (riot police) in Mexico City. Police use brutal force, triggering outrage across the student body. This event is widely regarded as the spark that ignited the 1968 student movement.
Sources
- T3 Elena Poniatowska, La Noche de Tlatelolco (1971) Institutional
- T3 Evelyn Stevens, Protest and Response in Mexico (1974) Institutional