Keeping the Peace: Mexican Protesters Say Non-Violence Is Key to Change Whitney Eulich - The Christian Science Monitor
go to original November 23, 2014

Mexico Missing Students: 'Dialogue' Needed to Re-Establish Trust (BBC/UKNewsVideoDaily)

MEXICO CITY — Demonstrators snaked across Mexico City Thursday along three separate routes, meeting in the historic Zócalo Plaza to protest the Sept. 26 disappearance – and likely massacre – of 43 teaching students nearly two months ago.

It was billed as a peaceful march, with thousands of demonstrators ranging from families of the disappeared to university students and teachers, unionists and concerned citizens, calling for government action and justice.

But clashes between some protesters and police led security forces in riot gear to clear the Zócalo later in the night. Earlier in the day a few hundred protesters attempting to shut down the Mexico City airport threw Molotov cocktails and rocks. As political energy continues to build nationally around the attack on students – an incident in which government officials, police, and drug cartels are implicated – many say keeping demonstrations peaceful is the key to meaningful change.

“The situation is delicate enough that the climate of violence and the escalation of violent acts, they only benefit radical groups – and in some ways they benefit the government,” says Erubiel Tirado, a national security expert at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City.

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