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Mexico’s ‘Bloque Negro’ Faces Fresh Allegations of State Links as Officials Stay Silent

Authorities have not announced arrests or publicly identified members.

Overview

  • El Imparcial reports that, in a private meeting months ago, Omar García Harfuch told UNAM leaders federal officials had identified the group’s leaders and planned to detain them.
  • A Generation Z march in Mexico City ended in violence, with social media footage showing organized masked groups equipped with tools dismantling metal barriers and acting in formation.
  • Columnist Raymundo Riva Palacio alleges the group functions as a government-created successor to the 1970s Los Halcones and claims it has been financed by Mexico City’s Secretaría de Gobierno.
  • Riva Palacio and former security official Alberto Capella say plainclothes police infiltrated the protest and later joined violent actors at the Zócalo.
  • Participants from Somos México argue those detained were not members of the masked groups and urge a professional, depoliticized investigation.