[publius911]

I remember seeing how the Mexico federales handled protests at the University of Mexico City. They sent their military in with machine guns to confront the protesters. The protesters would NOT leave so the army gunned them down, every last one of them. END OF PROBLEM.

Honestly, even at my age, I don't remember that event.

Can you provide more detail? A date (year?) A link if you used one? Anything?

[publius911]

Can you provide more detail? A date (year?) A link if you used one? Anything?

Here it is. With the usual reminder that a supply of salt is useful when reading all Wikipedia articles.

Ideology was the major ingredient in the fatal riot. Whatever the driving force of that ideology, it is certainly an object lesson from history.

That it was the remedy necessary at the time to bring the violent riots to a quick conclusion may be debated forever, but that it prevented future similar senseless ideologically driven extreme riots is beyond dispute, and ultimately may have prevented hundreds of similar fatalities since then.

[cloudmountain]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre

I had family down there that I visited so I was interested in that stuff. I was very young then but I do remember it.

Notice the number of dead: 30-300. Now is that a sloppy body count or what?
The press, La Prensa, down there is as crooked and lying as any in the world. Makes ours look almost NOT horrible.