Week of March 3rd: Mexico in 1968
During class, we talked about if we thought that the revolution was a myth, success, or failure. In our learning community, we talked about how it really depended on the viewpoint of who was looking at it. We also talked about how if the revolution was ever really over as well and we thought that it was still an ongoing thing but there were breaks throughout the years. One of these “breaks” we talked about was the Olympics held in Mexico in 1968. We considered this a break because it had all of Mexico focusing on their image for other countries rather than the issues that were happening. I think that by hosting the Olympics Mexico was both helped and hurt. It helped as people of different countries were able to recognize how far Mexico has come and inform them that they are not the third-world country they are thought to be. But about ten days before the Olympics, Mexico had a tragedy known as the Tlatelolco Massacre causing them to whitewash the area because they wanted to uphold their image. I think that doing this caused even more problems because it was not addressed and was also pushed back due to the Olympics. I personally would have been angered that something as dark as the massacre was pushed aside and not addressed.
I completely agree Jayden, that by ignoring the massacre, there were unspoken problems that lay in store for Mexico. I also know that Mexico was not the first and was not the last to ignore a serious social dilemma just to put on a façade. In my opinion, countries use these masks far too often, which causes more issues when something is uncovered later on.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jayden, for your post. I agree with you that the government's attempts to conceal the Tlatelolco Massacre may have made matters worse. But I wonder how we might connect this event to the Mexican Revolution. In what sense is this evidence that the revolution was a myth, a success or a failure? Or do you see no connection between the two?
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