Overview
- Demonstrations called by a movement identifying as Generación Z took place in more than 50 cities to demand security, justice and accountability, with the Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo’s assassination a key catalyst.
- In Mexico City, a hooded subgroup tore down metal barricades at Palacio Nacional using tools and projectiles, prompting clashes as police deployed extinguisher powder and irritant gases and ERUM treated the injured.
- The Mexico City government’s tally cited 60 police treated on site, 40 officers taken to hospitals, 20 detainees turned over to prosecutors and 20 administrative remissions.
- The Interior Ministry condemned the violence and urged peaceful protest, while President Claudia Sheinbaum said the call was amplified by organized opposition and foreign-driven disinformation, claims rejected by participants who describe the mobilization as grassroots and nonpartisan.
- Reports documented parallel marches and some confrontations in states such as Puebla and Michoacán, with diverse, cross‑generational crowds carrying pop‑culture symbols like One Piece flags and straw‑hat imagery.