On October 3, 1968, the day after the massacre in Tlatelolco, the headlines of the capital’s main newspapers played down the event or blamed the students. El Sol de México ran the headline “Manos Extrañas se Empeñan en Desprestigiar a México” (Foreign Hands Strive to Discredit Mexico). Excélsior wrote: “Recio Combate al Dispersar el Ejército un mitin de Huelguistas” (Fierce Fighting as the Army Breaks Up a Strikers’ Meeting).
In 1971, Elena Poniatowska published La noche de Tlatelolco, with the subtitle Testimonios de historia oral (Testimonies of oral history). It collects the accounts of students, workers and many others. Poniatowska later recalled that her own newspaper had turned her reporting down: “¡En Novedades rechazaron todo!” (At Novedades they rejected everything!)