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- Demands boundaries due to violence; asks to review police action
- Accuses that classism and racism were behind the protest
- He assures that there was a “very prepared” group in the mobilization
Juan R. Hernandez
Mexico City.- The question fell into the spotlight as a challenge: “Do you think it is going to weaken us?” Claudia Sheinbaumstanding firmly in front of the Treasury Hall, responded to the organizers of the march of the call Generation Z with a mixture of disbelief and defiance. Outside, in recent memory, the knocks against the fences, the metallic roar of the grinders and the echo of the lockpicks with which – according to what he reported – some protesters tried to tear down the containment placed “to avoid confrontation” still echoed.
“Stronger today, stronger,” the president insisted, raising her voice just enough. She said that neither the insults nor the “leperadas” will make her back down and that classism and racism are still present in Mexico, feeding the narratives that they sought to sow on Saturday, when the protests arrived at the Zócalo turned into a choreography of pushing, smoke and shouting.
From the stand, he reconstructed the scene: a “very prepared” group, with hammers and clubs, did not seek to reach the National Palace but rather to provoke the police to create the image of youth repression. Videos of struggles appeared on the screens, of a police officer being pulled through the crowd. “That is what they wanted to appear on the networks, to be replicated outside, to say that in Mexico young people are repressed.”
Sheinbaum He called not to fall into provocations and asked the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate who finances mobilizations that – he assured – have received a million-dollar boost from the opposition and businessmen.
He remembered names, familiar faces of the pink tide, PAN leaders, commentators, a television station that broadcast the entire day. “In 2023 they filled the Zócalo; now they have not filled it,” he stressed.
The atmosphere at the conference was one of reconstruction and warning. The president repeated that the transformation will not stop “not even with international right-wing alliances,” that Mexico is sovereign and that “no one is above the law.” He also asked to review whether there were police abuses, but demanded identification of those who, he says, promoted the violence.
Between accusations to businessmen such as Ricardo Salinas Pliegocalls for serenity and evocations of nationalism, Sheinbaum closed the circle: “There will be people who don’t like me… but we are not going to give up. It is the people, the people, the people.” Outside, the city continued its rhythm, as if the tension of the weekend had been just another parenthesis in the long political pulse of the capital.