Loading ...Rioters stormed through security barricades outside Mexico City’s presidential palace after an anti-cartel rally spiraled out of control, erupting into disorder. Young Mexicans — many of them Gen Z — clashed with police, shouting in anger about the corruption and relentless cartel violence that they say has taken over their country.
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of the capital, marching toward the presidential palace, the official home of President Claudia Sheinbaum, who took office last October. The large-scale protest, led mostly by youth groups and backed by older opposition supporters, was a boiling point for citizens fed up with the government’s failure to curb violence or create real economic opportunities.