Disappeared 'Normalistas' in Mexico: Global Struggle for Ayotzinapa Captures World's Attention Telesur
go to original November 22, 2014

What's next for Mexico after massive protests over the disappearance of 43 students? CNN's Shasta Darlington reports. (CNN)

Thursday’s resistance was dubbed a “Global Struggle for Ayotzinapa,” as nation-wide protests paralleled solidarity movement actions across the globe, including actions taken as far away in European countries such as Spain and Holland, and in several of the largest states of the U.S., in Texas and California.

Events organized in Mexico City, the capital of the country, seat of the federal government and home to no less than a fourth of the country’s total population, led the global actions.

Three Mexico City-bound caravans led by family members of the disappeared “normalistas” called the worlds attention. When the caravans arrived to capital district, they spawned three corresponding marches which emanated from some of the city’s most important places: the Angel of Independence, which is surrounded by a spate of buildings bearing the offices and logos of multi-national companies; Tlatelolco, the site of the infamous 1968 massacre of hundreds of students; and the Monument to the Revolution, an important marker hailing back to 1910.

All three marches eventually converged, creating a massive presence in the city’s historic downtown square, which is called the Zócalo. Therein, creative actions and scenes took place which generated some of the most widespread images that went viral across the Internet.

A dummy depicting President Enrique Peña Nieto was lit on fire in effigy of the President. The crowd, now completely converged from the three marches and caravans, made a massive circle around the symbolic burning. Thereafter, skirmishes between young masked protesters and police occurred, as fires were lit in front of the door to the National Palace.

Official figures have not yet been released, but arrests were reportedly made.

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