In Mexico, thousands of people marched in downtown Mexico City calling for the resignation of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on the eve of Mexico’s Independence Day over the violence and corruption across the country.
Alicia Mercado: “It is time to say long live Mexico, but also emphasize a Mexico for us. And it’s time to say that Peña has go to go. Peña out! That is why I’m here, because I’m fed up with our bad government. Mexico smells like death, because all of its territory is a common grave full of assassinated and disappeared people and the journalists who are killed for saying the truth.”
The protest comes as Peña Nieto also continues to face backlash after meeting with Donald Trump in Mexico City last month, only hours before Trump went on to give a fiery speech in Phoenix in which he promised to deport 2 million people within his first hour in office, if elected. Last week, Mexico’s finance minister, who orchestrated Trump’s visit, resigned.