Word: tlateloco
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...quick assertion of authority, Echeverría adroitly weathered his worst crisis since taking office six months ago. "The President has shown who is President of Mexico," said Novelist Carlos Fuentes. Echeverria, 49, also seemed to have won over many students, who have distrusted him since the 1968 Tlateloco massacre when he served as Interior Minister in the government that ordered in riot police and federal troops; their indiscriminate firing caused at least 33 deaths...