Mexican Government Using Same Tactics Used in Tlatelolco Massacre To Stifle Dissent?

DD for Borderland Beat

I cringed when I saw the photos of "demonstrators' setting fire to and and trying to break down the door of the National Palace.  My thoughts were "No, No! You are just giving critics of the protests movement ammunition for their charges that all the protesters are anarchist and criminals. 

Pena Nieto was quick to respond (the next day) that "you cannot demand justice by pursuing violence". ( His quick response to someone trying to burn down his door was in contrast to the 10 days it took him to even mention the abduction and murders of the students in Iquala.)

  

Then I read the following article in El Diario de Coahuila and viewed the video which seems to indicate that it was government agents that tried to burn down the door, giving the government justification for using the military to move against the protesters in the plaza.  The videos  show the violent repression of the protesters that resulted in injury of 2 youths, one of them 11 years old.

That the government could have been been behind the attack on the National Palace would be hard to believe if you were not familiar with Tlatelolco massacre of 1968.  (video following the article) 

Ten days before the opening of the Olympic games in Mexico City in 1968 the tragedy unfolded on the night of October 2, 1968, when a student demonstration ended in a storm of bullets in La Plaza de las Tres Culturas at Tlatelolco, Mexico City.  Police officers and military troops shot into a crowd of unarmed students. Thousands of demonstrators fled in panic as tanks bulldozed over Tlatelolco Plaza. 

Government sources originally reported that four people had been killed and 20 wounded.  The government said that the violence started when "anarchists" among the students fired at the police and the police and army responded.  Over time evidence, witness statements, videos, some leaked govt. documents, and even a leaked US State Department cable from the US embassy to Washington has shown that Mexican government snipers on rooftops shot into the massed police and army presence that was blocking all entrances and exits to the plaza. 

It is well accepted today that the government fired on its own troops to justify them to violently attacking the demonstrators and silence the student movement.  The death count is still unknown, but over 300 were killed and unknown numbers injured.  Hundreds of demonstrators were arrested.

It worked!  The student movement was silenced as fearful students were afraid to organize other protests.  The Olympic Games opened peacefully.

Could PRI be doing the exact same thing today concerning the violence that erupted at the National Palace and other violence that has erupted in otherwise peaceful demonstrations?

The following article was taken from the website of 'EL DIARIO DE COAHUILA ON 11/11/14.  It is reporting on a story published in the Blog Notigodinez that contains a video that seems to show that an agent of the federal government instigated the violence in the attack on the National Palace.  The authors assert they take no position on the facts exhibited in the video.

México, 10 de noviembre 2014 (NOTIGODÍNEZ).-  A revealing video released today by electronic means 'In El Terreno' provides definitive evidence that the vandalism last Saturday against National Palace were orchestrated by the State Presidential.

The recording of 2 minutes 52 second of duration, it initiates with a clarification on the part of the authors of the material indicating that they do not think about how to assume any position on the facts exhibited in the video, although the same ones turn out to be conclusive to demonstrate that the vandalism against the door of the mentioned palace was another official assembly.

Then they make a brief summary of the facts and troublingl images of police repression that arose, in which at least two youths were injured, one of them just 11 years old.

In the minute 1 with 20 seconds, the authors manage to locate an individual who takes part actively in the violent facts before  the repression, heading the attack on the front door of National Palace and setting it on fire.  At times it appears he is concealing  half of the face and in other scenes one sees him completely open.

The distinctive feature that makes him readily identifiable is the military style jacket bearing an eagle with a shield on his left arm.

Ironically, the subject held a poster that read 'WAS THE STATE'  (referring to the protestors claim that it |was the state" that was responsible for what happened in Iguala) while the vandalism took place.

Also, you can see how perfectly he coordinates with the other subjects that participated in setting  fire to the door of the National Palace.

Once the violent repression is unleashed, the subject wearing the jacket with the eagle shield is taken no less behind the security fences surrounding the National Palace, giving orders to the soldiers involved in the 'operation'. The shield on his right arm is clearly visible and leaves no room to doubt that it is the 'anarchist' is the  same who just before had participated in the wreckage at the door of the National Palace.

The overwhelming evidence from this video possible to conclude definitively that the violent actions last Saturday, as others have done in peaceful demonstrations, was a setup orchestrated by their own police forces to justify repression against citizens and discredit social movements.

In their desperation, the system does not hesitate to literally raise curtains of fire and smoke to distract the attention of their own crimes, while it sows terrpr in the citizenship and inhibits their need to demonstrate and to raise their voices..

The only measure able to override these criminal strategies of the PRI regime is the NATIONAL STRIKE. The ABSOLUTE NO COLLABORATION to leave alone us alone  defenseless, while the criminals who hijacked the country remain and are willing to go on killing the people to remain in power.

DD.  Another article in El Universal reports that Catholic priest Alejandro Solalinde, one of

Mexico’s leading human rights activist, said that the attack on the National Palace and the burning of the front door have all the markings of an action by the federal government. 

The Catholic priest and activist said that the federal government is behind the fire attack against the ceremonial office of the President.

“What happened in the Zócalo is an official answer. The shock groups started it in December 2012, when (Mexican President Enrique) Peña Nieto was sworn in, you can see the signature of the house. Who could actually believe that a group like that could get close to National Palace and do what they did. It is either that or the Cisen (National Intelligence and Investigation Center) and the intelligence agencies of the Army and the Presidential General Staff are not working, which is unacceptable,” he said.

In his opinion, the main cause of anger among the people about the Ayotzinapa case is that Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam will not accept that the crimes against the missing teachers in training in Guerrero were caused by the federal government.

“What is happening is that the PRI (Institutional RevolutionaryParty) wants to have the state of Guerrero and that is why it has worked out the conflict. They are not interested in the farmers or what is happening. They have an election-minded interest.

Solalinde added that the moment has come to demand the presentation of all people disappeared in the country and take such demands to a higher level, organizing in every state of the nation a series of coordinated non violent resistance movements working in coordination.

So, what do you think?   Is PRI (PRI and the govt. are one and the same) using the same tactics it used in the Tlatelolco Massacre to justify use of massive force to quell dissent?

Good Video about  Tlatelolco Massacre with English subtitles.