Graduation Year
2020
Date of Submission
6-2020
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
Reader 1
Roderic Ai Camp
Rights Information
Ricardo Mateos
Abstract
This thesis examines Mexico's Olympic Project and its effects on the state-sponsored massacre of student protesters on October 2, 1968. The thesis argues that the impending Olympics had a direct effect on the government's decision to use force to repress the student protests. The work examines the government's preparations to host the Olympic games, and argues that this process altered the organizers' perception of Mexico's reality at the time, making them impervious to the students' demands and more willing to use force as a means of addressing the demonstrations.
Recommended Citation
Mateos, Ricardo, "Mexico ’68: An Examination of Mexico’s Olympic Project and its Effects on the Tlatelolco Massacre" (2020). CMC Senior Theses. 2513.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2513
