President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo addressed the controversial protest on November 17, rejecting claims that it was led by young people from Generation Z. Sheinbaum accused political opponents and foreign accounts of funding and promoting the mobilization, which turned violent at Zócalo.
“The majority were not young,” Sheinbaum said, highlighting the presence of well-prepared groups with tools and weapons aimed at confronting police. She emphasized that the government will not be provoked into repression.
00:04Well, today we're going to talk about welfare programs.
00:10Tomorrow we'll talk about how the call for Saturday's march was made.
00:19The idea was promoted that young people were organically calling for this march called Generation Z.
00:30But here it was shown that in reality there was a boost of close to 90 million pesos promoting this mobilization from the opposition on the one hand and also with the support of a businessman.
00:53Many accounts, even from abroad, promoted this mobilization.
01:00And let's get to the questions.
01:03What did we see on Saturday?
01:08Well, we saw that the vast majority were not young people.
01:14The vast majority of those who marched on Saturday were not young people from Generation Z.
01:18Yes, there were some young people, but most of them were not young.
01:22We saw very familiar faces of those who marched with the pink tide and called for the so-called pink tide.
01:31There were intellectuals or
01:36Politicians.
01:50So a very violent group that arrived at the city's main square, very violent.
01:54Some dressed in black, others not, some with their faces covered, others not.
02:08Most of the violent group that arrived were not young people.
02:11They were carrying grinders, lockpicks,
02:17hammers,
02:22sledgehammers.
02:27These were to break the weld.
02:29very well-prepared.
02:36What was their goal?
02:40To tear down the fence.
02:42That we put up precisely to prevent confrontation between these groups that have marched in the last mobilizations,
02:54but that now had better preparation.
02:55Thank you, Madam President, good morning, Angelica Guerrero from Financiero Blomberg.
03:06This very violent group that arrived with
03:08material to break down the fence.
03:16After an hour of pulling on the fence, broke the fence
03:19and did not even reach the palace, but rather attacked the police in a very violent way.
03:30There are the scenes.
03:34The police resisted for about two hours with blows.
03:41There are many videos on the networks.
03:44Television, well, first of all, to find out their opinions about the march.
03:49And then there was a campaign on the networks saying that young Mexicans, by the way, young Mexicans are not violent.
04:02They are not violent and we have to listen to them.
04:05We always have to listen to young people.
04:12This is not an issue against Generation Z or young people,
04:14because very few young people actually marched,
04:17but what they wanted to raise later on social media,
04:20just as they raised the campaign for the march,
04:22is that young people are against the transformation and that they were repressed.
04:26Of how many people participated,
04:33it is worth it.
04:34So, we are not going to fall into provocation.
04:40We should not fall into provocation
04:42because what they are looking for are these images of repression
04:44and we should not fall into provocation.
04:46No matter how complex the circumstances,
04:55we do not repress,
04:56we should not fall into provocation
04:58and even less into violence.
05:04So, we must pay attention to young people,
05:07but this mobilization
05:08is not a problem.
05:16We must pay attention to young people,
05:19but it is good,
05:20because as they are English
05:22with a 체 scrub and it has ult.
05:23It is a pleasure for this child to drop
05:26into a project of water
05:28which is integrated into its path for the process.
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