Thousands March in Mexico City Streets for Missing Students
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Susan Gonzalez - Bloomberg
By Eric Martin and Brendan Case Nov 20, 2014 8:38 PM MT - Comments Email Print
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Mexico City to demand that the government strengthen the rule of law after the apparent killings of 43 students by a drug gang working with police.
On a day marking the start of the Mexican Revolution 104 years ago, demonstrators marched from a monument commemorating that struggle to the capital’s central square, or Zocalo, imploring President Enrique Pena Nieto to improve security in a nation racked by an eight-year drug war.
Banging drums and waving flags, demonstrators shouted “enough, the people are rising” and “justice.” One group arrived at the Zocalo carrying a 20-foot tall paper-mache effigy of Pena Nieto in a dark suit, with the red, white and green presidential sash on his shoulder and blood on his hands. As chants of “Pena, get out” intensified, they set it ablaze.
Beatriz Aguilar, 49, walked into the square with tears in her eyes and a sign that said, “We don’t want to just survive, we want to live.”
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