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Activists and police clash in Mexico City during a demonstration to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, as numerous women's rights protests take place across Latin America. IMAGES
Mexico City, June 10 (EFE).- At least 400 police officers were deployed Wednesday in the affluent neighborhood of Polanco in Mexico City during youth protests demanding an end to police violence and the immediate release of the country's political prisoners.Shortly after midday, the representative office of Jalisco state in Mexico City, located in the area, became a bunker as protesters from various social organizations were expected to arrive. SHOT LIST: POLICE DEPLOYMENT IN PREPARATION FOR PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.SOUNDBITES: A MEMBER OF THE ACCION REVOLUCIONARIA (REVOLUTIONARY ACTION) GROUP (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS: 1.) We are demanding the dissolution of repressive bodies, the release of political prisoners, the punishment of perpetrators and the entire line of command that has sheltered these violent acts.2.)From the Polanco subway to here there was a large display of policemen dressed as civilians. This shows their nature, the defense of private property and the repression of working people.
Mexico City, Sep 24 (EFE).- Around thousand of people from different organizations marched in Mexico City Friday to demand an end to the violence in the state of Chiapas and the departure of paramilitary groups.The protesters, who mobilized from the intersection of the central avenues of Reforma and Insurgentes to the Ministry of the Interior, took to the streets in support of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the former indigenous guerrilla group.The EZLN denounced a few days ago that Chiapas is on the brink of a "civil war". (Camera: ULISES ANDRADE).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE MARCH IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO, TO DEMAND AN END TO VIOLENCE AND THE DEPARTURE OF PARAMILITARY GROUPS IN THE SOUTHERN STATE OF CHIAPAS.
Mexico City, May 8 (EFE).- About 300 Colombians took to the streets in Mexico City, demanding an end to alleged state repression against protesters in their country.At least 27 people have died, and nearly 360 have disappeared in days of protests across Colombia, plunging the country into crisis over President Ivan Duque's proposed tax reforms.The tax reforms proposal was withdrawn after massive street protests, but demonstrators are fuming at alleged police brutality and the Duque government's healthcare reforms. (Camera: AMERICA NERI).SHOT LIST: COLOMBIANS IN MEXICO CITY STAGE AN ANTI-GOVERNMENT IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. SOUND BITES: PROTESTERS ESTEFANY JIMÉNEZ AND DARINA MERCHANT (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS: 1. ESTEFANY JIMÉNES.- We're hurt because of our young people, because of the deaths. We cry for them and we suffer a lot from outside of the country and we also thank them. Thanks to them we have the faith that everything in our country will change.2. DARINA MERCHANT.- It is time to unite these voices to show that we no longer want militaristic, warmongering, violent governments, that we want democratic governments that respect the people.
Mexico City, Apr 2 (EFE).- Women took to the streets of Mexico City Friday to protest a series of gender-based murders that occurred recently in the state of Quintana Roo and to demand justice for Victoria Salazar, the Salvadoran woman allegedly murdered by Mexican police last Saturday in the municipality of Tulum.(Camera: AMERICA NERI)SHOT LIST: WOMEN MARCH TO DEMAND JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).