No grenadiers will be watching over October 2 acts: Mexico City government

The Secretary of Government of Mexico City, Patricia Mercado, announced that no grenadiers will be watching over the marches called by students and activists to mark the student's repression of October 2, 1968.

In an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva, she expressed that the authorities have been in contact with the organizers of the march and they expect the participation of some 20,000 people, as well as a smaller group coming from the state of Michoacán.

Mercado added that only transit police and staff of human rights agencies will be watching over the march.

"The human rights staff will be present in the event that the authority has to intervene in the demonstration," she said.

Mercado added that the metropolitan subway system will have cars reserved for the students in case they need to move to the central area of Tlatelolco.

Most of the participants in the march are expected at 6:10 p.m. in the Zócalo, the central square, for a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the repression of 1968.

The Tlatelolco massacre, also known as the Night of Tlatelolco, from a book by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska, was the reported  killing of between 30 to 300 students and civilians by military and police on October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas.

The massacre occurred 10 days before the opening of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. More than 1,300 people were arrested by the police. There has been no consensus on how many were killed that day.