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Army Seizes IPN Casco de Santo Tomás

| Tlatelolco 1968

The Mexican Army occupies the IPN's Casco de Santo Tomás campus, another violation of educational institution autonomy. Students are arrested and beaten. The action is part of the government's strategy to dismantle the student movement in the weeks before the Olympics.

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