The protest of the self-proclaimed ‘Generation Z’ called this Saturday in Mexico City, which brought together thousands of Mexicans of all ages, ended with riots in the capital’s Zócalo, at the doors of the National Palace, the headquarters of the Executive Branch.
The tour began at the Angel of Independence as a peaceful march and ended in the largest square in the country, where the so-called “black block” of the demonstration hit the fences that protected the National Palace with hammers and stones until they were knocked down.
This caused a confrontation between this group and the capital police, who fired tear gas and fire extinguishers.
According to media reports, paramedics arrived in the area to treat 20 people injured by blows.
The national protest of ‘Generation Z’ in Mexico was not marked by age, as has happened in other parts of the world, but by the call to “not forget” the victims of violence, a problem that persists despite the change of government that Mexico experienced in 2018 with the arrival to power of former president López Obrador, who is succeeded by Sheinbaum.
Between ‘One Piece’ flags and the slogan “Claudia (Sheinbaum) Out!”, thousands of Mexicans of all ages, belonging to the so-called ‘Generation Z’, protested this Saturday in Mexico City to express their “political fatigue” towards the Government headed by the Mexican president and denounce the “impunity” in the face of the violence that plagues the country.
The tour began at the Angel of Independence and ended in the capital’s Zócalo at the gates of the National Palace, headquarters of the Executive Branch, surrounded by fences placed by the local government that were beaten, climbed and knocked down with hammers by hooded people identified as the “black block.”
The protest served as a catalyst for students, farmers, members of opposition political parties and citizens born in the state of Michoacán like Christian, who told EFE that the violence in his region is over and that the murder of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo (1985-2025), on November 1, is evidence of this.
“It is cynicism on the part of politicians, if there was really an acceptance on their part that there is a problem of violence, I think this would be easier to deal with,” he declared after defining himself as “non-partisan” and stating that “no one gave him a single peso” for attending the march.
This clarification arises after Sheinbaum linked the self-proclaimed group ‘Generation Z Mexico’ as part of the opposition to the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the ruling party from which the Mexican president emerged.
Figures from the Mexican political opposition attended the march, such as members of the Citizen Movement party, but Christian defended that “political fatigue” is a national phenomenon motivated by violence, the more than 133,000 missing persons and the almost 60 murders daily in the country.
“There are (political) interests on the part of the opposition in the march, but it is so great that who is not going to be involved here,” he stressed.
In that sense, Sara, a young protester, confessed to EFE that for her the trigger occurred on March 8, when the group of Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco denounced a supposed “extermination field” for drug trafficking after finding 400 pairs of shoes in the Izaguirre ranch, located in the municipality of Teuchitlán.
“For all the missing people that the Government is forgetting, they are not one, they are not two, there are more than 400 missing people who were at the Izaguirre ranch and we all forgot that,” he concluded.
Disillusionment with change
Another dissatisfaction expressed by youth was the increase in taxes on sugary drinks and video games, but above all the increase in prices on basic products such as food.
“You go to the supermarket and you can’t afford anything (…) We are young and what we are looking for is a better Mexico, good jobs, insurance, workers’ rights, security from the moment you arrive at home and at work,” Sara highlights.
Regarding this, Esteban, another of the young attendees, mentioned that since 2018, the year in which Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2025) assumed the presidency of Mexico, “the plan was clear” and that “he never had the intention of improving the country”, a problem that he also observes with the current president.
“López Obrador never had the intention of improving the country, he wanted power no matter what it cost,” he noted.
After the arrival of the protesters to the Zócalo, the largest square in the country, the march that began as peaceful turned violent after the “black block” hit the fences protecting the National Palace with hammers and stones, which were demolished.
The national protest of ‘Generation Z’ in Mexico was not marked by age, as has happened in other parts of the world, but by the call to “not forget” the victims of violence, a problem that persists despite the change of government that Mexico experienced in 2018 with the arrival to power of former president López Obrador, who is succeeded by Sheinbaum.
With information from EFE.
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