Mexican Bloody Revolution Erupts: Palace Set On Fire, Military Deployed

Mexicans by the thousands are in a bloody protest in Mexico City on Saturday night, having taken to the streets demanding that government leaders leave their offices.

Tonight’s bloodshed follows three weeks of protests echoing across the nation and other nations after Mexican police in Iguala, Guerrero disappeared in goriest of Mafia-style 43 young students, under order of government officials, mayor of the town near Mexico City.  Most Mexicans undestand collusion between officials and organised crime, along with government inaction.

More: ‘Police Hit Men’ Kidnapped 43 Mexican Youth, 28 Others Cut Into Pieces, Burned

During a televised appearance Friday, attorney general Jesus Murillo announced two suspects had led authorities to trash bags believed to contain incinerated remains of the students missing since September 26 after led away by police in the southwestern town of Iguala in the state of Guerrero.

Protesters began demolishing the Mexican Palace on Saturday evening, knocking holes in it and setting on fire before some rushed into it.

“We want this fucking government to die,” was the widespread chant heard this evening in Mexico City’s Zocala, according to tweets such as that by @MexicAnarchist.

Serious Injuries From Police Brutality

Witnesses report that riot police and some military have been beating people until unconscious, targeting journalists.

Ambulances can be heard screeching through the city’s Zocala as seriously wounded protesters fall after beaten by federal police.

There are reports that the police are entering bars and arresting people.

Journalists are also being targeted for arrest.

In Oaxaca, the mayor ordered police to open fire on the protesters there, injuring seventeen people, according to preliminary reports by witnesses.

Police Disappearing 43 Poorest of the Poor Students

Police disappearing 43 poorest of the poor students three weeks ago, under orders of the mayor of Iguala, has brought the country to heightened level of protest for rights.

Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, ordered police to confront the students. The some students had gone to Iguala to raise money. The couple reportedly feared the students would disrupt an event being led by the wife, a drug queen of one of the local gangs.

They have been reaping profits from locally growing poppies due to high demand in the United States where the drug is refined in factories. Notice silence of American political leaders over the missing Mexican students? Why spotlight the underlying problem, a fraudulent war on drugs, benefitting the drug lords through violence.

At one protest earlier this past week, the father of one of the 43 disappeared students spoke. Emiliano Navarrete, a slight man in a baseball cap appearing to be in his mid-thirties.

“I am the father of a boy who, for me, is not disappeared,” he began. “For me, he was kidnapped by men in uniform who are municipal police of Iguala, Guerrero.”

Alma Guillermoprieto reported that “his face was stretched taut against his skull from tension and the stress of speaking in public, and his stumbling Spanish revealed his Indian origins.”

“Why does this government act like this?” he went on, searching for words. “We are not sheep to be killed whenever they feel like it.”

Cameramen, normally noisy and cynical, listened closely.

“I haven’t come here to ask for any favor,” Navarrete shouted in rage. “I’ve come to demand [that our children be found], because I am a citizen of Mexico, and I have rights.”

Emiliano Navarrete’s sentiments are those of tens of thousands of poor Mexicans, all with rights, most of whom come from generations of rights abuses, few knowing the real source of their misery.

Realted Articles by This Author