Former President Vicente Fox (PAN) published a message on his social networks prior to the march, with which he does not directly call to attend, but does ask citizens to get involved and criticizes the current government led by Morena.
“When the citizen participates, Mexico advances. (…) Today it’s time to complain, it’s time to get involved, it’s time to step forward,” wrote the former president, who governed the country from 2000 to 2006.
The mobilization arose from the murder of Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, who publicly declared his intention to go against criminal groups in his community. He even requested support from President Claudia Sheinbaum on several occasions, but was attacked by gunfire at a public event for the Day of the Dead on November 1.
Fox affirms in his message that “Mexico has already paid too much for the arrogance of power.”
“When a government stops listening, the country stagnates, today we see it: decisions made from a desk without seeing the reality of the people. (…) Mexico needs truth, it needs dignity, not everyday propaganda,” the former president said in a video.
In the Congress of Mexico City, a Special Monitoring Commission was created to investigate the acts of violence, the actions of the capital’s Police and the participation of shock groups in the November 15 march.
Although there was a second mobilization on November 20, the response from the people was smaller, gathering only 150 attendees, according to the official figure given by the city government.
Local Morena deputies accuse opposition parties, legislators and officials of operating in favor of the first march of ‘Generation Z’, in which the majority of attendees were not teenagers or young people, but adults.
Among the politicians mentioned are the mayor of Miguel Hidalgo, Mauricio Tabe, and the mayor of Cuauhtémoc, Alessandra Rojo de la Vega.
