Inquiry into Mexico's 'dirty war' obstructed by military and other agencies, board says

[Judi Lynn]

Oscar Lopez in Mexico City
Fri 16 August 2024 at 6:00 am GMT-5·4-min read

An independent commission charged by Mexico’s president with documenting human rights atrocities committed by the state has accused the country’s military and other government agencies of obstructing their investigation and threatening the country’s transition towards justice and democracy.

A blistering report released on Friday details years of abuses committed by Mexico’s government and its armed forces between 1965 and 1990, a period known as the country’s “dirty war” when it was ruled by an authoritarian one-party system which violently repressed any form of dissent.

Efforts by students, peasant farmers and Indigenous groups to challenge the regime were violently repressed, particularly by the Mexican military. Hundreds were extrajudicially executed, with their bodies sometimes thrown from planes into the Mexican Pacific in what were called “death flights”. At least 1,000 people simply disappeared, their whereabouts still unknown.

Arguably the most well-known incident during that period was the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, when members of the military and the president’s personal guard mowed down hundreds of peaceful protesters in Mexico City.
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(US corporate media didn't feel obligated to inform the US public about this, of course, but it did pitch fits when 2 US athletes held their fists up in the air in 1968 at the Olympic games in Mexico City, and terrorized some who described it as their "black power salute!)