dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
verfasserin/verfasser: Laura Mart
titel: Operation Amigos. Art, Tourism, and Diplomacy in Mexico / this month
+: In: Karen Cordero Reiman (ed.), Another Promised Land. Anita Brenner's Mexico, Los Angeles 2017, pp. 168–189
«Notably, description of the student protest movement that culminated in the infamous Tlatelolco student massacre of October 2, 1968, is all but omitted from the magazine's pages. A post-Olympic summary touting the success of the games referred to the protests and repressive violence only as 'pre-Olympic disturbances,' and mentioned Tlatelolco once by name nearly a whole year later, in a summary of President Díaz Ordaz's Annual Report: 'Díaz Ordaz assumed 'full responsibility' for the bloody clash at Tlatelolco, oct. 2, 1968, which climaxed a series of student disturbances allegedly aimed at disrupting the Olympic Games.' This is surprising considering Brenner's earlier role in leftist political activism; during the Spanish Civil War she had advocated unequivocally for freedom of expression, including withing the Left. It whould seem that any political sympathy she may have shared with the Tlatelolco protesters' situation was subsumed by the mission to portray Mexico as save and stable.» (p. 174)