Above photo: March in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. From Radiozitacuero.com.
Thousands Of Mexicans Take El Zócalo And Burn Figures Of Mexican President
By Maria G. Valdez in Latin Times
Mexico has a very deep wound right now after the disappearance of the 43 students in Ayotzinapa. On September 26, dozens of students took several buses to Iguala, and after a violent encounter with the police, 43 of them were allegedly taken to the police headquarters and never heard from them again. The government claimed the students where there to boycott a political event, but the students claim they were there to raise funds for their school. Mexican authorities eventually declared the students dead after weeks of investigation, but the people of Mexico are not letting this one go so easily.
They’ve had enough with the government, and this atrocious act was the last straw, which detonated a series of protests around the whole country. On November 20, 2014, multiple manifestations both in Mexico and of Mexicans living in other countries took place to show their support to the Ayotzinapa students and to tell the government that they’re tired of the corruption. The protest in Mexico City specifically took place at El Zócalo, where protesters took a cardboard figure of Enrique Peña Nieto and burned it at a stake, showing that the president’s approval rating might be dropping to an all time low.
Members of the Center for Global Justice in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico report on a spirited march through the streets:
“With torches, photos of the 43 students, drums leading the way several hundred Mexicans and Foreigners marched from the Jardin down Zacateros -Ancho San Antonio-Salida a Celaya to La Casona [ the new convention center] delaying its inaugural event then on to El Pipila where several mounted El Pipila. Then all returned to the Jardin. . The protestors chanted in spanish: We want Justice, solemnly counted fro 1 to 43 – Guerrero has risen -Guanajuato rise up= wakeup..
We were in solidarity with the Youth calling for the young normalistas to be returned alive Fue el Estado. All the chants were in Spanish.
A Historical event for SMA. The foreign community had had an APOTZINAPA event in the Theater at the Bibliotecca on Wedesday where almost 100 showed up.
Below is a photo from twitter of an undercover member of the military, agent provocateur, throwing a molotov cocktail:
Militar vestido de civil en el convoy militar, es visto provocando violencia en la marcha #YaMeCanse pic.twitter.com/n1mCRLCU7b
— NST noticias (@NSTnoticias) November 21, 2014
More photos of people protesting all over the world can be found by clicking here.