El Halconazo

El Halconazo
Part of Mexican Dirty War
Illustration of a member of the paramilitary group Los Halcones beating a demonstrator fallen on the ground, in the repression of June 10, 1971.
El Halconazo is located in Mexico
El Halconazo
LocationCasco de Santo Tomás, Mexico City, Mexico
Coordinates19°26′40″N 99°10′03″W / 19.44444°N 99.16750°W / 19.44444; -99.16750
Date10 June 1971; 53 years ago (1971-06-10)
Attack type
Massacre
Deaths120
PerpetratorsLos Halcones
The Normal station of the Mexico City Metro was the scene of The Halconazo, the name given to the Corpus Thursday Massacre in 1971 in Mexico City.

El Halconazo (Spanish: The Falcon Strike) was a massacre of student demonstrators by members of the Halcones, a state-sponsored paramilitary group, on 10 June 1971 in Mexico City. Occurring during the Mexican Dirty War, the massacre resulted in nearly 120 demonstrators being killed, among them a 14-year-old boy.[1]

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