Senate Considers Law to Regulate Public Demonstrations in Mexico Milenio/Notimex
go to original October 18, 2013

The president of the National Commission of Human Rights, Raúl Plascencia Villanueva, spoke in favor of the Congress promoting a general law regulating the marches in the country.

"I think it would be very important that it be a general law, a model to be followed by all states, even Mexico City," he said.

"This would be so that the police have have clear, precise objectives on which to act at the time, and with legal backing." he said at a hearing in the Senate.

In turn, the Secretary of Public Security of the Federal District, Jesus Rodriguez Almeida, called for a thorough discussion of this issue and ruled out the possibility that the Zocalo [central plaza] can be taken again by the dissent teachers.

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