cover image Massacre in Mexico

Massacre in Mexico

Elena Poniatowska. University of Missouri Press, $18.95 (333pp) ISBN 978-0-8262-0817-0

Poniatowska reports on the massacre of 325 unarmed Mexican students who were peacefully protesting police repression one week prior to the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. PW called this ``heartbreaking. . . . A massive chronicle that builds to the night of the Tlatelolco massacre in an accumulation of skillfully crosscut eyewitness accounts.'' Photos. (Dec.)