Overview
- In Mexico City, retirees and families marched from the Ángel de la Independencia to the Zócalo and filed a formal petition at Palacio Nacional.
- The petition rejects the 4% increase and seeks a 10% boost to retirement pay plus a minimum 6% yearly adjustment to preserve purchasing power.
- Protesters report chronic failures in military healthcare—months-long waits, unsupplied prescriptions, medicine shortages, and stalled reimbursements—with Chiapas demonstrators saying there is “not even a paracetamol.”
- Organizers request a National Dialogue Table with Sedena, Semar and ISSFAM to negotiate solutions, and outlets report no public government response so far.
- Additional demands include protecting survivors’ payments from cuts, creating jobs for service-disabled veterans, digitizing procedures, and revising gun rules that limit private security work.