Politics & the 68' Olympics

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Former Mexican Leader Charged With Genocide

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4263472.stm

BBC NEWS
Mexico ex-leader genocide charge
Special prosecutors in Mexico have filed genocide and kidnapping charges against a former Mexican president.

Luis Echeverria, now 83, is accused of ordering a massacre of student protesters in 1968, days before the Olympic Games opened in Mexico City.

As many as 300 people may have died when government agents hidden among regular soldiers opened fire on students, prosecutors allege.

A Mexico City judge must now rule on whether the case should go to trial.

Mr Echeverria is the first former Mexican president to face the possibility of charges for human rights abuses allegedly committed during his time in office.

He was serving as interior minister and head of national security at the time of the massacre.

Special prosecutor Ignacio Carrillo filed the charges after a judge ruled in July that Mr Echeverria could not be charged over separate killings in 1971.

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Mr Carrillo said his investigations had exonerated the Mexican army of responsibility for the massacre, and said he hoped to end 37 years of "impunity and injustice".

Luis Echeverria's lawyer Juan Velasquez said he believed the new charges would be rejected much like Mr Carrillo's last accusations.

"It is exactly the same thing: the deaths of that day in 1968 were the result of a confrontation, not a state policy," Mr Velasquez said.

Mr Echeverria has acknowledged that some died in Tlatelolco Square in 1968.

He denies prosecution allegations that he posted snipers on scores of buildings to fire into the crowd and gave orders to fire.

He faces a kidnapping charge over the 1969 disappearance of activist Hector Jaramillo.

Several others are named in the case accused of involvement in the Mexico City massacre.

Mexico's current President, Vicente Fox, has vowed to punish public figures found to be responsible for killings and oppression in the past.

Hundreds died or disappeared during Mexico's "Dirty War" on leftists under Mr Echeverria's leadership between 1970 and 1976.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/4263472.stm

Published: 2005/09/20 10:46:19 GMT

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First time I've heard of it. I wonder what will become of this.
 
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Havoc said:
First time I've heard of it. I wonder what will become of this.
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Him being brought up on charges,or the whole incident?
That shit that happened back in 68 was like what China did at Tiananmen Square.Some goverments like to keep an Iron fist on their peeps
 
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Makkonnen said:
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Mexico ex-leader genocide charge


Special prosecutors in Mexico have filed genocide and kidnapping charges against a former Mexican president.

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As many as 300 people may have died when government agents hidden among regular soldiers opened fire on students, prosecutors allege.
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<font size="3">It didn't occur to me when this was posted but the 68 Olympics in Mexico are noted for a very important Revolutionary gesture in African American history:

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May 14, 2008 — Nicholas Love discussed the actions of Tommie Smith and John Carlos during the 1968 Olympic Games.
 
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The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment
That Changed the World [Hardcover]



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Book Description
Publication Date: October 4, 2011

Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s Black Power salute
on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet their
show of defiance remains one of the most iconic images of Olympic history
and the Black Power movement. Here is the remarkable story of one of the
men behind the salute, lifelong activist John Carlos.

John Carlos is an African American former track and field athlete, professional
football player, and a founding member of the Olympic Project for Human
Rights. He won the bronze medal in the 200 meters race at the 1968 Olympics,
where his Black Power salute on the podium with Tommie Smith caused much
political controversy. The John Carlos Story is his first book.

Dave Zirin is the author of four books, including Bad Sports, A People's History
of Sports in the United States, and What's My Name, Fool? He writes the
popular weekly online sports column "The Edge of Sports" and is a regular
contributor to SportsIllustrated.com, SLAM, Los Angeles Times, and The
Nation, where he is the publication's first sports editor.

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Hardcover $14.76 at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1608461270/?tag=vp314-20



 
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Olympics' famous protester helps Occupy Wall Street



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Dr. John Carlos, one of the U.S. Olympians who famously raised the awareness
of racism in America by raising his fist on the medalists’ podium at the 1968
Summer Olympics in Mexico City, talks with Keith about his visit to the Occupy
protests. Carlos says the Occupy movement “will become a beacon as the 1968
demonstration was 43 years ago.” He says he understands and supports the
message the protesters are sending, which reflects what he and his fellow
Olympians conveyed in 1968: “Enough is enough; we need something today.”



Perhaps the image that has lingered longest from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics
is that of John Carlos and Tommie Smith raising black-gloved fists as they stood
atop the awards podium and the Star Spangled Banner played.

That protest sent shockwaves through the sports world, much like Occupy Wall
Street protesters were attempting to do in the real world last night. And Carlos
was there with them.

"I am here for you," Carlos told the crowd gathered at Zuccotti Park. "Why?
Because I am you. We are here 43 years later because the fight is still to be
won. We must never stop, for this day is not for us, but it's for our children."

Added Carlos, in comments reported by the New York Daily News: "Society is
broke and these people are here to say 'We need to fix it.'"

Carlos won the bronze in track's 200 meters in Mexico City, and Smith claimed
the gold. For their actions, both were immediately banned from the Olympic
Village.

Carlos, who grew up in Harlem, has repeatedly said he has no regrets about
putting America's racial issues of the '60s on center stage as the world
watched. He was in New York to promote his autobiography, The John Carlos
Story, written with sportswriter Dave Zirin.




http://content.usatoday.com/communi...s-famous-protester-helps-occupy-wall-street/1




 
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The Longest Olympic Jump
The Oldest Olympic Record
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Bob Beamon breaking the long-jump record at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. ​


"The Olympic record in [the men’s long jump] was set more than 40 years ago, in Mexico City, by the American Bob Beamon. About nine months before a man landed on the moon [and ironically 40 years before the American's landed Curiosity on Mars], Beamon made a giant leap — 29 feet two and a half inches — that has yet to be surpassed at the Olympic Games. (Mike Powell beat Beamon’s record at a non-Olympic meet in Tokyo in 1991, a record which itself is now more than 20 years old.) ​



SOURCE: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/sunday-review/why-olympic-records-are-broken-or-not.html




 
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