Whether the interim

Minister Echeverría gave

the orders was moot but

as the student bodies fell

in their hundreds all torn

and mutilate the ’68 fire

that started at Nanterre

became a reactive massacre.

What of it, asked the Institutional

Revolutionary Party? When De Gaulle

backs down, Mexico can. Three years

later at Corpus Christi, Los Halcones

repeated the feat in plain clothes. Then

came the Dirty War. Imprisoned, killed or

simply disappeared without trace. Anyone

who believes in cosmic justice should note

that Echeverría lived to 100 and had eight

healthy children.