Graffiti from Mexico City: 2010 Riot!!!

On October 2, 1968, just ten days before the opening of the Mexico City Olympic Games, over 300 protesters were shot & killed in a massacre initiated by police & military forces, including a special unit tasked with security: the ‘Olympia Brigade’.
The deadly repression was the government’s response to a growing mass movement that saw hundreds of thousands of protesters in the streets demanding democracy and an end to police violence.
Although the International Olympic Committee had nothing to say about this violence, which was carried out to ensure an ‘Olympic peace’, when two black US athletes got on the podium and raised their fists as a sign of protest against racist US policies, they were stripped of their medals and expelled from the Games.
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