This Saturday, representatives of organizations such as Mexico United Against Delinquency, Antimonumenta “Long live we love each other”, Data Cívica and Yo Mexiro, among others, made interventions in the so-called Roundabout of the Women who Fight, where it was painted in both directions of Paseo of the Reformation the phrase “It was the Army”.
In this intervention, the names of people who were victims of military personnel since 2006, when then President Felipe Calderón launched the so-called war on drug trafficking, were also written in large letters.
Some cases appear on the Paseo de la Reforma where military personnel were involved, including Ayotzinapa in 2014. The statistics of more than 580 sexual abuses of military personnel against civilians between 2006 and 2021 are even shared.
In the case of the Monument to the Revolution, the phrase was written on the main esplanade: “Militarized State, it is a State crime.”
Through a statement addressed to the current administration and the opposition parties, the groups that participated in both spaces this Saturday assured that during 16 years of militarization in the country it has only been shown that far from reducing crime, cases are increasing. of human rights violations.
Due to the above, they spoke out against the incorporation of the National Guard into the Army and the minute that is about to be discussed in the Senate of the Republic, which keeps the corporation in security tasks until 2028.
“The current government, instead of engaging in an open and deep dialogue to create a security strategy aimed at peace, consolidates a war that concentrates power and capital in an opaque military institution that exercises power through pain, terror and violence. death”, reads the document published on social networks.
The messages written both on Paseo de la Reforma and on the Monument to the Revolution were portrayed and exposed on social networks.
