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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Fabiola Snchez and Fernanda Pesce

Gaza crisis features in march remembering 1968 Mexican massacre

APTOPIX Mexico Massacre Anniversary - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The annual march to commemorate the 1968 massacre of protesting students in Mexico’s capital was eclipsed Thursday by demands to end a humanitarian crisis halfway around the world in Gaza.

The Oct. 2 march that has regularly been used not only to remember that earlier massacre, but also Mexico’s tens of thousands of other missing and abuses of authority, was this year full of Palestinian flags and signs demanding an end to Israel’s military operations in Gaza.

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