The low attendance, barely two hundred people, and a strong police force marked the second march of the self-proclaimed Generation Z held this Thursday in Mexico City, which coincided without incident with the traditional military parade in commemoration of the Mexican Revolution.
The second mobilization of Generation Z occurred five days after the first, which brought together some 17,000 protesters and ended with around twenty police officers and 100 civilians injured, as well as around twenty people detained, after a confrontation between the authorities and a group of hooded people at the doors of the National Palace in the center of the Mexican capital.
The red lights of the Mexico City police were turned on days before because the organizers of the march sought to coincide their demonstration with the traditional military parade of November 20 of the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum due to possible disturbances after the protest last Saturday.
In his speech, Sheinbaum defended the country’s sovereignty this Thursday, during the commemoration of the 115th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, and assured that “anyone who calls for “foreign intervention” is “wrong.”
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Sheinbaum highlighted that, unlike in the past, in today’s Mexico “no one is silenced anymore, no one is persecuted for thinking differently” and closed his speech with recognition of the Armed Forces, which emerged from the Revolution.
From two points
The mobilization was called at two points in the capital, the Angel of Independence and in Ciudad Universitaria, on the central campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where no one gathered.
From the Angel of Independence, a group of about 200 people began the walk along the central Reforma Avenue to a street before the Zócalo where a line of agents blocked their path, since at that same time the military parade on November 20 was taking place.
The mobilization passed calmly and the greater attendance of the media and street vendors than those attending the march was notable.
Precisely to avoid incidents, the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) days before modified the route of the civic-military parade on November 20, which began in the Zócalo and ended at the Monument to the Revolution.
In a statement, the Secretariat of Government of Mexico City and the Secretariat of Citizen Security reported that the demonstration registered “an influx of approximately 150 people” and after a dialogue held in Reforma, “it was agreed to allow its progress once the rearguard of the parade concluded its passage and the operational personnel withdrew from the route.”
The note indicated that during the tour, at the intersection of Reforma and Guerrero, a fight between individuals occurred and as a result five men were presented before the Civic Judge.
Additionally, on Madero Street, SSC personnel seized batons, gas masks and chains that some people were carrying while a small group of hooded people entered the Zócalo, where no relevant incidents occurred.
The movement, which claims to have no partisan affiliation, published a document in which it demands greater popular representation in Congress, combating corruption and strengthening local security with citizen supervision amid the wave of violence by organized crime that certain parts of Mexico are experiencing.
With information from EFE
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