ABSTRACT
For 30 years, the night of Tlatelolco, as it is known in Mexican history, has been a mystery, a myth and an open wound. On October 2, 1968, soldiers and paramilitaries butchered scores of people gathered to protest Mexico's one-party government under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). In 1998, there have been calls for the government to reveal its role in the events of 1968. After years of collective impotence, the Mexican press is generally approaching the search for the government's 1968 files in a critical spirit. Between 1968 and 1969, El Dia fired 12 journalists. Freelance journalist Federico Campbell interviewed one of those journalists to find out what had happened within El Dia. No one would publish the interview. The Mexican press of 1998 is different from that of 1968 because Mexican society is different. The 30 years since the night of Tlatelolco have been a long time, but not long enough to bring revolutionary change to Mexican journalism.
