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"This phrase is attributed to Mexican television presenter Jacobo Zabludovsky in the context of the 1968 Movement in Mexico and the massacre that took place on October 2 of that year in Mexico City's Plaza de las Tres Culturas. Since there are no known recordings of the host's program, the phrase has been used to exemplify the Mexican government's censorship of those events. There are different versions of the phrase, and Zabludovsky may not even have said it."

Today is yet another anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre of 1968, and finally, I'm posting this piece I did around two years ago, for an art contest.

As stated in the above quote, this phrase supposedly said by the presentator has become an urban legend of sorts, there is no proof that he ever said it, on the contrary we have plenty of evidence that every news station and newspaper did report the incident, but in a very downplayed way that on top of it made the students look like an extremist group looking for trouble.

But, personally I still used it, because for me, despite not being the actual thing, imo it still works as a very appropiate metaphor for the repression that these students must have lived at the time, and everything that followed afterwards.