▲ Protest yesterday on Paseo de la Reforma against the United States’ economic and military support for Israel.Photo Luis Castillo
Ivan Evair Saldana
The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 19, 2024, p. 17
For 10 minutes yesterday, traffic was closed on Paseo de la Reforma, in front of the headquarters of the United States embassy in Mexico, and it became a sowing of corpses
of civilians, children and adults, symbolizing the victims of Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip.
He performance It was carried out by members of the Coordinator of Solidarity with Palestine (Corsopal), Mexican@s who support Palestine and the Citizens’ Parliament Save the Water Cycle, as a claim to the United States government for financing wars in the Middle East and for vetoing peace actions at the UN.
The only reason there is war is because of the US veto
Alfonso Jesús García Pérez, member of Corsoexpal and the Citizen Parliament, reproached through a loudspeaker.
In front of the diplomatic headquarters, on the fence that isolates the building, a mega Palestinian flag measuring eight by five meters was placed. The attendees at the event also wore Palestinian insignia and scarves and chanted slogans such as Biden sponsors, Netanyahu murders!
On April 23, the US Congress was asked to approve $26 billion for the Israeli army.
It is a public resource of the American people that is being used to kill Palestinian children. 18,000 children and 41,000 unarmed civilians have been killed in these months of unilateral war against the civilian population. 150 UN officials have been killed, more than 100 journalists, 85,000 people have been injured and there are a million and a half people affected by hunger in southern Gaza, in the Rafah refugee camp, which continues to be bombed by the Israeli army.
Garcia protested.
The event was joined by members of the permanent protest in Reforma for the 43 students from Ayotzinapa. One of them, who identified himself as Eduardo, took the loudspeaker to call on the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to immediately break diplomatic and commercial relations with Israel for Genocide in Palestine and the Gaza Strip
.
He also called out the president for being omission
in Mexico’s request to extradite Tomás Zerón, former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency, to answer for the case of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students.
