Jared Laureles
La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, September 27, 2025, p. 13
Family, friends and colleagues of Committee 68 made an honor guard in Memory of Raúl Álvarez Garín in the tenth lucrative anniversary of the ac-trivist and social fighter, who highlighted their leadership in the 1968 student movement.
Thanks to his work, the following years, he was able to proceed in courts and an accusation for genocide was formulated against those responsible for the slaughter of students in Tlatelolco, said David Roura, a member of the Committee.
Specifically, former President Luis Echeverría Álvarez, who remained for two years in household prison for his responsibility in the Matanzas of October 2, 1968 in Tlatelolco and on June 10, 1971 on the Mexico-Tacuba Calzada, known as Corpus Thursday.
Echeverría “did not die unpunished, the Mexican justice became and swam of death and left the open file, but he did not exonerate him from the genocide of October 2 and June 10,” he said.
For the members of Committee 68, yesterday was also a special and felt date, since it coincides with the disappearance of the 43 normalists of Ayotzinapa.
Roura indicated that Álvarez Garín’s death occurred precisely at the time when the students of the Rural Normal Raúl Isidro Burgos de Ayotzinapa were repressed.
“In Committee 68 we felt doubly sensitive because they come to that (the missing normalists) on the march of October 2,” he said.
At the foot of the Estela de Tlatelolco, located in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, relatives and friends of the activist they placed carnations and a heart with rose petals.
