Thousands March In Mexico City On May Day
Source: wbur.org
Friday, May 2, 2014
By Carrie Kahn
A young man spray paints an anarchist symbol on a kiosk during a march by anarchists on Labor Day in Mexico City, Thursday, May 1, 2014. Thousands of people, many calling for greater worker rights and protections, participated in various marches around the city center. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)
Many Mexicans say they don’t believe a series of political and economic reforms being pushed through Congress will benefit them. Tens of thousands took to the streets yesterday in annual May Day demonstrations to protest the new laws, which take aim at everything from Mexico’s flagging education system to opening up the state controlled oil industry to foreign investors. NPR International Correspondent Carrie Kahn reports from Mexico City.
Tens of thousands marched through the streets of Mexico City, tying up traffic along major thoroughfares and filling the capital’s historic Zocalo plaza.
Housewives, students and even a group of scarred and bloodied zombies demonstrated against President Enrique Peña Nieto’s series of reforms currently being pushed through Congress.
Protesters carried a large stuffed mannequin of the president, along with posters reading “Peña is a sellout.” Peña Nieto is pushing for a historic change that would allow foreign companies to drill vas oil and gas reserves.
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