Editing Tlatelolco massacre (section)

==Media portrayals==
[[File:YampolskyBookPresentation16.JPG|thumb|left|200px|[[Elena Poniatowska]]'s best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco (The night of Tlatelolco, the English translation was entitled "Massacre in Mexico").]]

In 1969, [[Mexican rock]] band [[Pop Music Team]], launched the single "Tlatelolco" but was heavily censored by the government after a few days of airplay.

The '[[Cinéma vérité]] documentary film ''El Grito, México 1968'' directed by Leobardo López Aretche captures the events surrounding the protest and massacre.

''[[Rojo Amanecer]]'' (1989), directed by [[Jorge Fons]], is a Spanish-language film about the event. It focuses on the day of a middle-class family living in one of the apartment buildings surrounding the Plaza de Tlatelolco and is based on testimonials from witnesses and victims. It starred Héctor Bonilla, [[María Rojo]], the [[Bichir Brothers]], [[Eduardo Palomo]] and others.

[[Alejandro Jodorowsky]] dramatized the massacre in ''[[The Holy Mountain (1973 film)|The Holy Mountain]]'' (1973), with birds, fruits, vegetables, liquids and other things falling and being ripped out of the wounds of the dying students.

Richard Dindo, a documentary filmmaker, made ''Ni olvido, ni perdón'' (2004),<ref>{{IMDb title|0399405}}</ref> which includes contemporary interviews with witnesses and participants as well as footage from the time.

A feature film, ''Tlatelolco, verano del '68'',<ref>{{IMDb title|1565995}}</ref> was released in Mexico, November 2012, written and directed by Carlos Bolado.

[[Roberto Bolaño]] released ''[[Amulet (novel)|Amulet]]'', a Spanish-language novel, in 1999, recounting the massacre from the point of view of a woman named Auxilio, based on the true story of [[Alcira Soust Scaffo]]. Auxilio was caught in the university bathroom at the time of the police ambush. She tells her story also in his later novel ''[[The Savage Detectives]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Savage Detectives|first=Roberto|last=Bolaño|others=Natasha Wimmer (trans)|publisher=Picador|page=197|year=2007|isbn=9780312427481}}</ref>

''Borrar de la Memoria'', a movie about a journalist who investigates a girl who was killed in July 1968, lightly touches the massacre, which is filmed by Roberto Rentería, a C.U.E.C. student who was making a documentary about said girl, known popularly as ''La empaquetada'' ("the packaged [girl]") for the way her dismembered body was found inside a box.

''Los Parecidos'', a 2015 film, also takes place at the date, references Tlatelolco heavily and portrays the conflict between students and the government.

"Jarhdin", a song by Mexican artist Maya Ghazal, features a two-minute audio sample recorded during the shooting at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas.

In season 1 episode 2 of [[Netflix]] TV series ''[[Narcos]]'', it briefly explains the role of the Mexican Government FDS and short video of the Mexican Army storming the Plaza de las Tres Culturas.

The 2018 TV series [[An Unknown Enemy]] focuses on the same subject, from the perspective of an Intelligence agency.

Episodes 1 and 2 of the Netflix documentary series ''[[Break It All (documentary series)|Break It All]]'' feature the massacre and its impact on contemporary [[Rock en español|Latin American rock and roll]].

The events of the season 2 episode "Who Are You" of the Star Wars [[Andor (TV series)]] surrounding the Ghorman Massacre are drawn partially from the Tlatelolco massacre <ref>{{cite web | last = Looney | first = Ryan | title = 'Andor' Just Depicted a Second Ghorman Massacre, and Somehow, It's Even Worse Than the First | url = https://collider.com/andor-season-2-episode-8-ghorman-massacre/ | date = 2025}}</ref>