Fernando Camacho and Jared Laureles
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 16, 2025, p. 3
The marches that took place yesterday from the Angel of Independence to the Zócalo – one of them called by the Sombrero Movement and another, supposedly, by the Generation Z Mexico organization – took place peacefully, as a prelude to the chaotic day that was later experienced in the Plaza de la Constitución.
From hours before 11 in the morning, several thousand people gathered around the Angel to participate in the two walks that, although they were called at the same time and with the same route, were not unified.
The vanguard of the mobilization was occupied by the members of the Sombrero Movement, a group that vindicates the figure of the mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, Carlos Manzo, who was assassinated on November 1. Among them was Mrs. Raquel, his grandmother, who was present in a wheelchair, showing a photo of her grandson.
Behind them, marched the various contingents grouped under the flag of Generation Z Mexico, whose banner is the smiling skull with crossbones and a hat, inspired by the anime One Piece.
Although many of those attending this last walk were indeed young people born between 1997 and 2012, people of all ages also gathered, whose common denominator was the repudiation of the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum, especially for what they consider its failures in facing the problem of insecurity.
The attendees – many of them dressed in white and with a profile similar to those on the call pink tide or the 2023 mobilizations in defense of the National Electoral Institute – chanted slogans such as “Morena Out”, “narco-government” and “Carlos did not die, the government killed him” (in reference to Manzo).
The march, called on social networks, was attended by former PRD senator Emilio Álvarez Icaza, who today seeks to convert the Somos México association into a political party, and Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, former deputy of Sol Azteca and promoter of the National Civic Front.
Those attending the mobilization also insistently repeated the phrase “Revocation!”, to refer to the popular consultation that is already provided for in the Constitution, to define whether or not the mandate of the head of the Executive continues.
“The government has control of everything”
Although many of the protesters held up banners criticizing what they considered Sheinbaum’s poor strategy to confront crime, many others based their participation in the walk on shouting insults against the president, some of them of a sexist nature.
Among the participants was Liliana Sánchez, from the state of Mexico, who noted that she came to express her disagreement because the “government has control of everything” and there are no “counterweights.” Morena, he considered, “is another PRI, but a thousand times worse: it has those from other parties who joined in to continue stealing and continue in this system that has been corrupt all its life.”
For her part, Analí Guerrero, a lawyer by profession, argued that she is concerned about the existence of a narcostate in Mexico and the murder of figures like Carlos Manzo, for which he said he shared “the vision of (Nayib) Bukele”, president of El Salvador, regarding the need to take more drastic measures against crime.
Among those attending was also a man who preferred to be identified as “the big bad wolf,” who flew the so-called “Gadsden flag,” used in the United States by “libertarian” groups close to President Donald Trump.
The walk ended without the possibility of holding a rally in the Zócalo, due to clashes between some protesters and the capital police, which lasted for almost four hours.
