Tens of Thousands March in Mexico City to Protest Energy Reform Agence France-Presse
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Founder and leader of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Cuauhtemoc Cardenas (C) leads a march against the energy reform, in Mexico City, on January 31, 2014. (AFP/Yuri Cortez)

MEXICO CITY - Tens of thousands of people marched in Mexico City to protest constitutional reforms pushed through by President Enrique Pena Nieto that open the oil and gas industry to foreign investment.

An estimated 65,000 people on Friday gathered for the protest in the Zocalo, the main square in capital city, an official at the Secretariat of Public Safety told AFP.

Some 2,500 police officers were deployed but there were no incidents of violence, the official said.

The march was organized by the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), the leftist opposition to the president's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

The reforms, which open Mexico's oil industry to foreign investment for the first time in 75 years, were approved in Congress and ratified by a majority of Mexican states in late 2013.

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