#mexican protests

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From October 2023 archives: My week in pictures, by Abelardo Ojeda.

My Street Photoblog

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From 2023 Archives: December Notes (Part Two), by Abelardo Ojeda.

My Street Photoblog.

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8M protests in Mexico City (2016-2019), By Abelardo Ojeda. // More of my Street Photography: https://cybergus.tumblr.com

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The president vs Mexican Citizens?

Currently there is a situation in Mexico where a peaceful group is demanding the resignation of the president who has revealed himself a dictator.

They are camping in front of the government seat, at a public square (well, the half of that public square that was not blocked by the government), completely peacefully and simply demanding that the law and their rights as citizens be respected.

First, the government sent police forces to deny them access to the place where they meant to camp. They had to get TWO judicial orders to get their basic right to freely transit the country respected. Ever since, and RIGHT NOW, the government has been sending hordes of supporters (most likely paid, governments here tend to do that a lot) to harass them, these supporters are aggressive and disrespectful and potentially endangering the physical well-being of the peaceful protesters who want to stop the rise of a dictatorship.

It would be very different if they went to actually support the president, but no, they’re going specifically to target this group of peaceful protesters.

The government is using literally every resource in their midst to attack and discredit these peaceful protesters. It’s endless harassment online, across all media, and now in real life too. Websites, social media and online transmissions are constantly being monitored and knocked off, freedom of speech repressed like never before.

This group of peaceful protesters is called F R E N A, and they are being treated as less than mexican, as less than human. Whether you agree with them or not, the way this government is treating them is criminal.

Violence, deaths by covid, crime rates, corruption, economical instability... every single thing that was wrong before in this country is now worse tenfold. And now this government is not only allowing, but encouraging the confrontation between citizens while the country sinks further and further into a void of poverty, ignorance and repression.

Ever heard of the Sao Paulo Forum?? How it impulses the rise of dictatorships in Latin America??

This president and his political party belong to it!!

Please, PLEASE keep an eye on Mexico!!

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Me: *posts a status about currently being surrounded and intimidated by the police at a peaceful protest*

Everyone whom I thought were my friends:

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You know how the government is using police brutality against civilians protesting for BLM and in Hong Kong??

The same is happening in Mexico.

Peaceful protesters are being surrounded and basically sieged in Mexico City by police forces sent by the government. The reason they're protesting? They want to get the president out of office, because he has revealed himself as a dictator.

The army has already killed a couple of farmers from the north after they protested because the government refused them acces to the water in the dams even though there is a drought going on.

Please, please, I beg of you. Make what is happening in Mexico known worldwide as you're doing with BLM and Hong Kong.

Please, we need help.

#FueraLopez

#LopezSecuestrador

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Kids living reality, by Abelardo Ojeda.

// More of my Street Photography: http://cybergus.tumblr.com

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Mexico's search for bodies reveals a history of hidden deaths

Forty-three students went missing in Mexico in September, and for all the attention that received, they were hardly the first. Their abduction by police has loosed a flood of new accusations and begun to reveal a history of hidden deaths.

By the official government count, about 22,300 people are missing in Mexico, a figure human rights officials think understates the problem.