{"id":265650,"date":"2025-11-16T07:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265650\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:15:10","slug":"mexico-thousands-march-against-crime-and-corruption-in-generation-z-protests-with-100-police-injured-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/265650\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico: Thousands march against crime and corruption in Generation Z protests, with 100 police injured | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands have taken to the streets of Mexico City to protest against crime and corruption – with 120 people left injured, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Pablo Vazquez, security secretary for Mexico’s<\/a> capital, said that of those injured, 100 were police officers with 40 hospitalised, while 20 people were arrested.<\/p>\n

The demonstration, which was mostly peaceful but ended with some clashes with officers, was organised by young people under the banner Generation Z.<\/p>\n

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Clara Brugada, mayor of Mexico City, said on X that “violent expression violates the rights of others” and condemned any act “carried out by a radical group of protesters”.<\/p>\n

One group, calling itself Generation Z Mexico, called for the protests and said in a “manifesto” circulating on social media that it represents Mexican youth fed up with violence, corruption and abuse of power.<\/p>\n

\n What is generation z?\n <\/p>\n

Generation Z – or Gen Z for short – refers to an age demographic of people born between the late 1990s and early 2010s.<\/p>\n

While the exact years vary depending on who is recording it, those considered Gen Z were typically born between 1997 and 2012, so would be between 28 and 13 years old.<\/p>\n

Mexico has seen a recent spate<\/a> of high-profile<\/a> murders<\/a>, including the fatal shooting of the mayor<\/a> of the Uruapan municipality during Day Of The Dead festivities at the start of the month.<\/p>\n

Supporters of Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodriguez, an outspoken critic of organised crime, were seen on Saturday wearing straw hats – a symbol of the mayor’s political movement.<\/p>\n

Eyewitnesses told the Reuters news agency that a small group of protesters tore down fences around the National Palace where Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum lives, leading to clashes with riot police who used tear gas.<\/p>\n

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Some demonstrators in Mexico City protested against Ms Sheinbaum’s party, while others called for stronger state efforts to stop crime and violence, shouting: “Carlos did not die, the government killed him.”<\/p>\n

Other marches took place across Mexico, including in the western state of Michoacan, where Mr Manzo was murdered.<\/p>\n

Reuters reported that Mexico’s government is claiming that the protests on Saturday were organised largely by right-leaning political opponents, and were promoted by bots on social media.<\/p>\n

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It marks the latest instance of mass protests from young people, after a Gen Z uprising<\/a> ousted the president of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina, earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And in September, anti-government protests that exploded after Nepalese authorities blocked several social media<\/a> platforms led to mass unrest<\/a> and the resignation of the prime minister<\/a> KP Sharma Oli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands have taken to the streets of Mexico City to protest against crime and corruption – with 120…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-265650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}