The National Action Party denounces before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights the “human rights violations” committed by the Mexican government during the march called for by Generation Z

This Wednesday, the National Action Party (PAN) denounced the Government of Mexico before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington due to the actions of the authorities during the marches called by Generation Z on November 15. “(We came) to report human rights violations, repression, police brutality, arbitrary arrests and Black Bloc (protesters who committed violence during the march) relations with the government of Mexico,” Rep. Jorge Triana said in a video. It was shared on opposition networks.

PAN deputies said that in their petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, they requested three main points: holding a hearing in the next session to analyze what happened on 15 November; Request to the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum for an investigation site; and begin establishing a permanent monitoring mechanism to ensure the continuation of the “cornerstone of democracy, freedom of expression” in Mexico.

The opposition party’s statements in the United States come a few hours after President Sheinbaum attacked the National Action Party’s decision in her daily conference, in which she linked this initiative to the interventionist position promoted by Washington to stop gang violence. The president explained: “Here we continue to talk about defending sovereignty and the people’s decision over their rulers, and that they do not come from abroad to tell us what we should and should not do.”

Sheinbaum also asked the media a question: “What do you think of a leader, legislator or opposition party that no longer has almost any popular support in Mexico and goes abroad, to the United States, to Washington, to denounce the Mexican government?” The president also stressed that the violence that occurred during the march in Mexico must continue to be investigated. “Continue the investigation – I have already asked – what the violence was like in 15-N, because everything must be revealed. The Mexico City Congress played a role, and we must investigate who promoted this violence,” he explained.

The deputies rejected these statements by the president (“We are not looking for intervention. We are looking for justice”) and confirmed that they traveled to Washington because of the lack of responses from Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission, which they stressed “has become a refuge for them.” Jobs For the Morinistas.” They also specify in the video that they are not seeking to accuse a specific person, but rather to condemn those responsible for the violence during the Generation Z march.

The national leader of the ruling Morena party, Luisa María Alcalde, supported Sheinbaum’s position in a message on the networks, in which she claimed that PAN members had gone to Washington “to denounce something they themselves invented.” “They did not provide evidence or arguments, just their desire to kneel before the foreigner,” Alcalde said. “Mexican conservatives are repeating their history again. They do not understand that they do not understand.”

The marches called for by Generation Z on November 15 gathered about 17,000 demonstrators, according to official data. This is a number that was rejected by the demonstrators and the opposition, arguing that there are too many. The PAN’s intervention in Washington comes a few days after the controversy fueled by Alcalde, who linked the conservative party to one of the organizers of the Generation Z march, Edson Andrade. The Morenista leader’s publications stated that the young man was appointed last February for 2.1 million pesos for a year to manage the party’s networks. “What a coincidence,” he quipped in his profile, “this after (National Action Party President) Jorge Romero Herrera himself pointed out that the opposition lacks only violence.”

The accusations against Andrade sought to strengthen Morena’s position, which, from the beginning of the call, agreed to link the protests to the financing of opposition parties and businessmen such as the controversial Ricardo Salinas Pliego, a position that the demonstrators rejected.