The Secretary of Citizen Security of Mexico City, Pablo Vázquez, reported that the march of ‘Generation Z’ on Saturday left a balance of 20 civilians and more than 100 police officers injured, as well as 40 people detained, after a confrontation that occurred between the authorities and a group of hooded people at the doors of the National Palace, headquarters of the Executive.
Vázquez explained that the arrested people were presented to the Public Ministry after provoking “violent acts” during the demonstration that culminated in the capital’s Zócalo, and he also highlighted that 20 of them are being referred for “administrative offenses.”
“We are working on identifying all the people who committed acts constituting a crime in the demonstration, and starting the corresponding investigation files in coordination with the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City,” Vázquez explained.
According to information from the authority, 60 uniformed personnel who were injured received care on site and 40 were transferred to receive hospital care, 36 of them for bruises, cuts and minor injuries and four who receive specialized care for trauma, which does not put their lives at risk.
Vázquez described as “exemplary” the action of the police force, which launched tear gas and fire extinguishers during the protest after the protesters tore down the fences protecting the National Palace, and He argued that this behavior on the part of the protesters was part of an “obvious provocation.”
He also reported that the 20 civilians with minor injuries were treated by the Rescue and Medical Emergency Squadron.
For his part, the Secretary of Government of Mexico City, César Cravioto, asked the media to “tell the events as they were,” referring to the fact that the local police “did not have any contact” with those attending the march when it, in the early hours of the morning, was peaceful.
“If there was contact, it was because a part of the protesters began to act not peacefully, but violently. If that contact occurred, it was because the fence that we put up to prevent that contact was opened, not by the city police, but by this group of protesters who were going to do just that: to provoke,” Cravioto highlighted.
The representative of the SSC-CDMX specified that During the arrests, stones, sticks, hammers, chains and parts of drains that the attackers broke in the Zócalo square were confiscated.
In addition, he explained that the violent group stripped the police of their shields with blows and even throwing explosive devices.
For its part, the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) of Mexico also expressed, in a statement, its rejection of the violent actions presented during the November 15 march towards the elements of the Citizen Security Secretariat of Mexico City.
“In the violent acts, homemade explosive devices, rockets, tools and objects were used against the security forces and against people passing through the capital’s Zócalo,” Segob pointed out.
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The march and demonstration for peace in Morelia rose in tone to demand, in unison, peace in the country, justice for Carlos. Manzo and even revocation of mandate.
At the end of the demonstration, there were confrontations and attacks on journalists, such as the one against Liliana Jiménez, who suffered a wound to her forehead. There is at least one person detained.
The caravan of nearly nine thousand people, estimated by the traffic authorities, left Plaza Morelos, towards the historic center of the Michoacan capital.
The police corporations confirmed that there were no incidents during the tour and no protests by attendees who, in addition to the young people of Generation Z, were accompanied by many others with their families and dressed in white.
The clash between law enforcement and attendees left 20 arrested. SUN
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Violence and political disillusionment, catalysts for mobilization
Between “One Piece” flags and the slogan “Claudia (Sheinbaum) Out!”, thousands of Mexicans of all ages, belonging to the so-called “Generation Z”, protested 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 protest served as a catalyst for students, farmers, members of opposition political parties and citizens born in Michoacán like Christian, who affirmed that the violence in his region is over and that the murder of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo (1985-2025), last 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.
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 crime, the more than 133 thousand missing people and the almost 60 murders daily in the country.
In that sense, Sara, a young protester, confessed that for her the trigger occurred on March 8, when the group of Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco denounced a supposed “extermination camp” of 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.
Another disagreement expressed by the youth was the rising prices of basic products. “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, security from the moment you get home and to work,” highlights Sara, another of the participants.
