The black flags with the white skull, symbol of the Generation Z, They mixed with the hats of the Tierra Caliente Michoacanbut also with the white coats of doctors, with the slow walk of elderly people, with entire families who gathered in thousands to protest against the current federal government and the main demand was to demand security.
The march called by the call Generation Z to protest against the violencethe corruption and the concentration of power The same brought together members of the Hat Movement who arrived from Michoacán, relatives of missing of Jalisco y Zacatecaspatients without medications, residents of Atenco, doctors, elderly people, among others.
“Out with Morena, narco-government, Carlos Manzo live, resign President, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico!” were some of the slogans that were heard at the foot of the Angel of Independencewhich from 8 in the morning had just begun to receive the contingents arriving from various states of the country, each one on its own, without an organization that brought them together.
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The anger and fatigue of the protesters were elements to attack the fences placed by the government. Photo: Carlos Mejía/EL UNIVERSAL
There, at the foot of the steps of the monument inaugurated in 1910 and created by the Italian Enrique Alciati, a contingent of more than a hundred inhabitants of Uruapan, Michoacanall with the traditional Tierra Caliente hats, like the one worn by Mayor Carlos Manzo, shouted slogans against the Morena government.
“We are all Carlos Manzo,” read on a banner held up by the michoacanos and who was accompanied by the grandmother of the mayor murdered on November 1 and who for months demanded the support of the federal government to combat the cartels that plague the roads of Michoacán.
Carlos Manzo’s grandmother, Doña Raquel, who participated in a wheelchair, carrying a portrait of the mayor of Uruapan on her lap, accused the Morenista deputy and former governor of Michoacán, Leonel Godoy, of being the intellectual author of the murder of his grandson on November 1.
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After the march of Generation Z, several attendees were injured and arrested. Photo: Francisco Rodríguez/EL UNIVERSAL
“Morena He had him killed and Godoy, the one from Lázaro Cárdenas, the one who was governor. Investigate Godoy, Godoy was right there and they sent him to kill [a Carlos Manzo]. I was nearby, and I said: why doesn’t he come, if we agreed to meet? When they told me, my whole body started to shake,” said Mrs. Raquel between sobs, remembering her grandson’s last moments alive.
Members of the Hat Movement accompanied her and shouted in chorus: “Carlos did not die, the government killed him!”, supporting the accusations of Manzo’s grandmother and his wife, Grecia Quiroz, who also pointed out Leonel Godoy on November 13.
Los young people of Generation Z They were the least on the march. Their place was occupied by contingents of families, mainly middle class, older adults, families, even pushing wheelchairs with disabled people who traveled the 4 kilometers between the Angel of Independence and the Plinth that was waiting for them armored.
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The march was attended by senior citizens, relatives of the missing, representatives of the Hat Movement and more. Photo: Carlos Mejía/EL UNIVERSAL
March without visible leaders, without political figures and only with some secrets like Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo. It also marches without a structured organization, where the contingents advanced by Reform starting at 11 in the morning in no particular order.
Paseo de la Reforma witnessed the crucible of demands, slogans, protestsof songs of pain, both for missing children, and for the lack of medicine, for the relatives of people murdered by the cartelsof the fatigue of grandparents, of mothers, of young women who suffer harassmenteven from girls and boys with posters complaining to the government about insecurity.
The river of protests was always guarded by riot policewho are no longer called grenadiers, but who perform the same functions. Doña Mariana, 80 years old, in a wheelchair, pushed by her granddaughter, commented:
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“The country is at its worst moment of violence, of corruption, and they believe that with a pension of 3 thousand pesos one can survive. Not even for the medicines reaches. Young people in the country are disappearing. This is a narcogobierno”.
The march was non-partisan and, in fact, few politicians participated, among them: Fernando Belaunzarán, Emilio Alvarez Icaza y Guadalupe Acosta Naranjomembers of the National Civic Front.
In an interview, Acosta Naranjo agreed with Mrs. Raquel’s accusations, and asked that the Morenista deputy be investigated Leonel Godoy and to former senator Raúl Morón.
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At 12 noon the first contingents arrived at the Zócalo, which had been walled for several days. slogans against federal government and immediately cloaked young men, who moments before were escorted into Reforma by capital policethey stood on the metal fences to first hit them and then climb up.
Many of the protestersespecially older adults, women, families, people arriving from ZacatecasJalisco, Michoacán, State of MexicoMorelos, among others, stayed in the middle of the Zócalo, in the face of the violence caused by the young people cloaked and the immediate response of police who fired gas, many ran and chose to leave the demonstration.
An hour later, with rockets from the side of the masked protesters and gases on the side of the grenadiers, they managed to knock down the fences of National Palace for the first time, while police officers Secretary of Citizen Security They responded with repression and violence.
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For three hours, police and protesters clashed on the esplanade of the Plinth capital, with blows, kicks and insults, the violence escalated as in few marches has been recorded.
The protesters tried to approach the presidential precinct. Parallel to the confrontations with tear gas, fire extinguishers and stones, personnel from the Rescue and Medical Emergencies Squadron (ARE) helped young people who were injured as a result of the beatings and pushes they received from the police.
Before 4 p.m., hundreds of security elements They forced the citizens to retreat, as they retreated with their shields to the streets surrounding the Zócalo. In a few minutes, the esplanade was empty and the police continued throwing Molotov cocktails and firecrackers at those who did not comply with the order to end the mobilization.
The March of Generation Z recorded an attendance of approximately 17 thousand people and left a balance of 120 injured peopleIn addition, 20 people were arrested, reported the Government of Mexico City.
During the violent acts that occurred in the Zócalo, 100 police officers and 20 civilians were injured, reported the capital’s Secretary of Citizen Security (SSC), Pablo Vázquez Camacho.
Of the injured troops, 40 were taken to a hospital for treatment, 36 for minor bruises and the remaining four for trauma and other non-life-threatening injuries.
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Around 800 elements of the Preventive and Metropolitan Police, as well as the Undersecretary of Control and Traffic and the Rescue and Medical Emergencies Squadron, were deployed to protect the demonstration.
