(THE AP) MEXICO CITY — Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has vowed to never use military force against civilians as the country approaches the 50th anniversary of a bloody reprisal against students.Lopez Obrador promised Saturday at Tlatelolco Plaza to «never ever use the military to repress the Mexican people.»
Troops fired on a peaceful demonstration at the plaza on Oct. 2, 1968, killing as many as 300 people at a time when leftist student movements were taking root throughout Latin America.
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