Dozens in Montreal Protest for Mexico Montreal Gazette
go to original July 15, 2012

MONTREAL - About 50 people took to downtown streets in protest of the Mexican elections and Law C-31, among other issues, Saturday night.

Organized by Mexicans United for Regularization (MUR), the group is mainly fighting to protect the rights of Mexican people they believe that been "forced" to leave their country and come to Canada.

"I want to let my people know that I am here, and I am ready and willing to fight for our rights. Enough is enough. We are tired," said Claudia Vega, one of the participants, when asked why she came out to the demonstration.

Mexico is in the throes of an ongoing conflict between drug cartels and the government.

The army has been deployed to certain areas of the country in order to fight the cartels, a move MUR also disagrees with.

"It isn't a war against drug trafficking," Oscar Carrillo, one of the organizers, told the crowd. "It is a war against the Mexican people."

Participants chanted in Spanish and held signs written mostly in Spanish.

A coffin with the words "stop deportation" and "democracy" scrawled all over it was the most evocative object.

Enrique Pena Nieto, leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, won the most recent Mexican elections, which took place two weeks ago. But the results have been marred by allegations of vote-buying and campaign overspending against Pena Nieto.

His main opponent, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the candidate of a coalition of leftist parties, is trying to have the results of the election invalidated.

The coffin was carried by six "pallbearers" for the duration of the march, which lasted about an hour.

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