The mobilization of the self-proclaimed “Generation Z” was characterized by the participation of opposition politicians and former officials, including promoters of the Pink Tide, and young people of Generation Z who distinguished themselves by actively rejecting all parties.
Mexico City, November 16 (However).– It was a meeting of old acquaintances: women and men dressed in white and Panama hats, promoters of the Pink Tide that accompanied the failure of Xochitl Galvez in the 2024 elections, and former officials who seek to create a new party. The “movement of the Generation ZSaturday November 15, where the young people of the generation z They appeared in dribs and drabs, leading to violence in the Mexico City, brought together thousands of people who oppose the management of the President Claudia Sheinbaum and faced adults who oppose Morena with young people who demanded to question politicians from all parties equally.
The differences became clear before the march will advance. In front of Angel of Independenceabout Paseo de la Reformaa group of elderly women and men shouted at three young people who were putting on a black scarf to cover part of their faces: “Get out! Get out! No!” hooded!”.
The first contingents included people who came from Michoacán, where the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, was murdered at the beginning of the month, a crime that opposition politicians have used not only to demand justice, but also to call in recent days to protest in different cities with Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012).
The opposition bloc has used paid troll and bot networks, videos made with artificial intelligence, as well as content creators related to the right to send a message of widespread anger. Former PAN president Vicente Fox was one of those who called for marching.
Emilio Álvarez Icaza and Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, from the defunct Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and who now seek to create a political party, also mobilized, as they have done in recent years with the so-called Pink Tide of businessman Claudio X. González.
Acosta ruled out that the participation of politicians like him would stain the movement that has been attributed to youth. “All Mexicans have constitutional rights,” he said, and assured that they let young people take the lead.
#VIDEO ¬ During the march of the “Generation Z”, Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, one of the politicians of the extinct PRD, assures that they let the youngest people and people from Michoacán lead the mobilization, he said that he came to show solidarity.
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Like him, this November 15, Max Kaiser, a former official in the government of the PAN member Felipe Calderón, and influencers with affinity to the National Action Party (PAN), such as Miguel de Samaniego García and Luis Enrique “Kike” Mireles. The former PRI councilor candidate, Edson Andrade, also did so; and in Chiapas, Maximiliano Narváez, promoter of the Citizen Movement presidential campaign with Jorge Álvarez Máynez, participated.
Arturo Herrera also participated, who calls himself a “libertarian” and on social media shows his sympathy for Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the businessman who, enraged because the Supreme Court recently ordered him to pay millions of pesos in taxes, called the head of the Executive this Saturday “narco-president” from his X account.
The demand that public officials cut ties with drug trafficking was adopted by people like Alex, originally from Oaxaca, who denounced that cases of disappearances, where families directly point out the participation of organized crime, are not investigated.
The march adopted the pirate flag from the anime One Piece as their banner, but young people who mobilized criticize conservative politicians for appropriating this symbol. days before, Vato Montés, a X user revealed that the metadata of a manifesto shared on social networks from the “Generation Z Mexico” account showed that it was created by Monetiqan agency that helps monetize far-right media and that shares tax domicile with the former deputy of the PRI José Alfredo Femat Flores.
“It seems like a joke to us. [que políticos usen esta imagen]; Even in the anime something like this happens: Luffy – the protagonist – exposes those who pretend to be pirates when they are not. The parties believe that using this symbol will make us feel empathy with them, but no, it is not like that. For me this symbolfire freedom. we want put an end to corrupt governments, in this case it is not only Morena, the problem is all political parties“said a university student who crossed out the party logos on a piece of cardboard.
In the same sense, a group of young people with their faces covered demanded, with a microphone and speaker, a change of the entire political class, regardless of which party they belong to.
“Why do we always put the same guys, or the same people who come from a group of society with quite a bit of privilege? That privilege clouds their vision of understanding what the problem is with the minibus, the subway, public transportation, etc., etc. So, what’s the point of having political parties if everyone is going to do the same thing?” approve the reductionand the working day from 48 to 40 hours.
“We are people, we deserve to live,” one of them shouted. One of her colleagues complained to the opposition politicians who called for them to mobilize because, she said, “they are not here putting the body, it is always the working class,” in reference to the protesters who meanwhile tried to tear down the metal fences that the federal government placed to protect the National Palace, the capital’s government offices and the Cathedral.
This Saturday, dozens of police officers mobilized in the Zócalo. They arrived at 5 de Febrero Street and, on the corner with Venustiano Carranza, they beat a protester in a group. They also launched gas and advanced through the streets 16 de Septiembre and 20 de Noviembre to withdraw the protest.
At the end of the march and the official report of injured police officers was made known, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), the Government of Mexico City and the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) condemned this Saturday the acts of violence that left at least 100 police officers injured in the Historic Center.