Editing 1968 Summer Olympics (section)

===Tlatelolco massacre===
{{Main|Tlatelolco massacre}}
Responding to growing social unrest and protests, the government of Mexico had increased economic and political suppression, against [[labor union]]s in particular, in the decade building up to the Olympics. A series of protest marches in the city in August gathered significant attendance, with an estimated 500,000 taking part on 27 August. President [[Gustavo Díaz Ordaz]] ordered the police occupation of the [[National Autonomous University of Mexico]] in September, but protests continued. Using the prominence brought by the Olympics, students gathered in [[Plaza de las Tres Culturas]] in [[Tlatelolco (Mexico City)|Tlatelolco]] to call for greater civil and democratic rights and showed disdain for the Olympics with slogans such as ''¡No queremos olimpiadas, queremos revolución!'' ("We don't want Olympics, we want revolution!").<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130704085632/http://www.adnpolitico.com/2012/2012/08/07/mexico-1968-las-olimpiadas-10-dias-despues-de-la-matanza México 1968: Las Olimpiadas 10 días después de la matanza]}}. ADN Politico (8 August 2012). Retrieved on 2013-07-03.</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/2/newsid_3548000/3548680.stm 1968: Student riots threaten Mexico Olympics]. BBC Sport. Retrieved on 3 July 2013.</ref>

Ten days before the start of the Olympics, the government ordered the gathering in Plaza de las Tres Culturas to be broken up. Some 5000 soldiers and 200 [[tankette]]s surrounded the plaza. Hundreds of protesters and civilians were killed and over 1000 were arrested. At the time, the event was portrayed in the national media as the military suppression of a violent student uprising, but later analysis indicates that the gathering was peaceful prior to the army's advance.<ref>Werner, Michael S., ed. Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture. Vol. 2 Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.</ref><ref>[http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/mexican-students-protest-greater-democracy-1968 Mexican students protest for greater democracy, 1968]. Global Non-Violent Action Database. Retrieved on 3 July 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB201/ The Dead of Tlatelolco]. The National Security Archive. Retrieved on 3 July 2013.</ref>