Thousands marched in Mexico City on Friday to mark 58 years since the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre, as President Claudia Sheinbaum called for keeping the memory alive and demanded “never again” state repression.
The march began at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas and was led by members of the Committee 68 Pro Democratic Freedoms, who chanted “Neither forgiveness nor forgetfulness!” Demonstrators carried banners with messages including “October 2, punish the murderers,” “In my voice lives the one they took from them,” and “Forgetting is full of memory.”
Participants were mostly students from several universities, along with rural normal school students, solidarity organizations, and union groups. Also present were fathers and mothers of the 43 Ayotzinapa rural normal school students who disappeared in 2014 in Iguala, Guerrero, and some surviving former leaders of the 1968 student movement.
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Authorities reported some graffiti along the route. The march did not have a large police deployment, and at some points paramedic personnel, the Mexico City Human Rights Commission, and the capital government secretariat were deployed.
¡#2deOctubre no se olvida
de 1968, la Plaza de las Tres Culturas en Tlatelolco fue testigo de un trágico capítulo de la historia mexicana. Lee sobre el movimiento estudiantil que fue reprimido, pero cuyo legado perdura > https://t.co/qkmWB2jTBf pic.twitter.com/nynPVm9Ibc
— UNAM (@UNAM_MX) October 2, 2026
In her morning press conference at the National Palace, Sheinbaum opened with the slogan “October 2 is not forgotten” and described the events as “one of the most painful episodes in the history of Mexico, with the repression of a student movement in the Plaza de Tlatelolco.” She expressed solidarity with those who lived through it and their families, and said, “Never again. Never again a state repression against a social movement.” She recalled that at the beginning of her term, it was officially recognized that the main person responsible was then commander of the National Army and former president of Mexico, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.
Sheinbaum also met with members of the Eureka Committee to follow up on the demand for truth and justice and the search for answers for victims and their families. At the meeting, she said keeping memory alive and listening to those who have demanded justice for decades is “a fundamental part of building a country that does not forget and always fights for respect for human rights.”
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