Overview
- Video showed a man groping President Claudia Sheinbaum near the National Palace; security intervened and Mexico City authorities later confirmed his arrest.
- Sheinbaum filed a formal complaint, saying the incident illustrates the everyday harassment faced by women across the country.
- The president unveiled a plan urging all states to classify sexual harassment as a crime and to simplify reporting so investigations can lead to arrests.
- Opposition figures, including PRI leader Alejandro Moreno, alleged the incident was used to shift attention from political violence, including a mayor’s recent killing in Michoacán.
- Women’s advocates, including María de la Luz Estrada of the National Citizen Observatory on Femicide, denounced those allegations as revictimization, as some critics also questioned presidential security protocols.