Posted on 11/16/2025 10:45:09 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Several thousand people took to the streets of Mexico City on Saturday to protest crime, corruption and impunity in a demonstration organized by members of Generation Z, but which ended with strong backing from older supporters of opposition parties.
The demonstration was mostly peaceful but ended with some young people clashing with the police. Protesters attacked police with stones, fireworks, sticks and chains, grabbing police shields and other equipment.
The capital’s security secretary, Pablo Vázquez. said 120 people were injured, 100 of them police officers. Twenty people were arrested.
In several countries this year, members of the demographic group born between the late 1990s and early 2010s have organized protests against inequality, democratic backsliding and corruption.
The largest "Gen Z” protests took place in Nepal in September, following a ban on social media, and led to the resignation of that nation’s prime minister. In Mexico, many young people say they are frustrated with systemic problems like corruption and impunity for violent crimes.
“We need more security” said Andres Massa, a 29-year-old business consultant who carried the pirate skull flag that has become a global symbol of Gen Z protests.
Arizbeth Garcia, a 43-year-old physician who joined the protests said she was marching for more funding for the public health system, and for better security because doctors “are also exposed to the insecurity gripping the country, where you can be murdered and nothing happens.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum still has high approval ratings despite a recent spate of high profile murders that includes the assassination of a popular mayor in the western state of Michoacan.
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If you let criminals govern you, they will always use your money to first pay for whatever they and their pals want.
Their wants will grow.
The number of their pals will grow.
Nothing gets fixed or done.
And they need more money for bigger mansions and yachts.
This seems to be an anti-cartel reaction from the limited reports I am seeing. Strangely enough, it seems the US News outlets were very slow to report on this...
It’ll be interesting to see where this goes. Was it a one-off? Or will it escalate?
One-off.
Mexico is a narco-state. Sheinbaum basically admitted to it the other day.
In the 1980’s they just brought in the Federales who machine gunned the protesters. So I guess it was “mostly peaceful” this time.
Looks like they took all their flags back to Mexico from Los Angeles and Chicago. I didn’t see any Us flags or Palestinian flags in any of the pictures.
“.....demonstration was mostly peaceful but ended with some young people clashing with the police. Protesters attacked police with stones, fireworks, sticks and chains, grabbing police shields and other equipment. The capital's security secretary, Pablo Vázquez. said 120 people were injured, 100 of them police officers......”
I would hate to see what true violence looked like.
I fear this will accelerate in the US, driven by the far left & legacy media.
The Trump admin & conservatives must loudly & persistently heap the blame where it belongs - on them.
“””””In the 1980’s they just brought in the Federales who machine gunned the protesters.”””””
Eighties or 60s?
October 2, 1968;
Tlatelolco massacre
Deaths 350–500
Injured +1000
How will I know a "gen Z" when I see or meet one?
People that claim to not want to put people in boxes use "gen Z" to put people in a box.
You are correct. I didn’t remember it being that long ago.
Coming soon to a city near you!
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