| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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1968: Los archivos de la violencia (1968: The archives of violence). By Sergio Aguayo Quezada. (Mexico City: Reforma, 1998. 331 pp. Paper, ISBN 970-05-1026-3.) In Spanish.

More than thirty years have passed since the massacre at Tlatelolco in the fall of 1968 transformed Mexican society and politics, yet "we still do not know exactly what happened" that day. Despite that note of admission, this book brings us closer than any other in shedding light on crucial questions surrounding the massacre while helping to clarify other unanswered questions that remain. Information from previously classified Mexican government documents would alone make this book significant, but Sergio Aguayo Quezada goes much further (with the help, as he points out, of a bevy of research assistants), incorporating declassified United States documents and the papers of Avery Brundage (International Olympic Committee chairman), providing a review of the international press, and conducting numerous interviews. Out of this global methodological approach emerges an equally challenging reinterpretation of Mexican authoritarianism in the 1960s. . . .

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