The riot police shot and killed two guys (22 and 25) the day before yesterday when they were peacefully protesting against the rise of gas in my state.
Majority of the people protesting in that town are indigenous, and 72.1 of the population lives in poverty; 39.57 live in moderate poverty and 14.40 in extreme poverty. Their statistics of lack of food is up to 36.8 %, which means, even before the gas raise, 3 (almost 4) out of 10 people couldn’t afford food.
Now, with the gas raise, food is even more expensive than before, so even less people have access to it. The government is slowly killing them.
The raise to the gas is unfounded though, because Mexico is a country with oil but what our government is doing is importing gas instead of making it, like anyone with a common sense would do.
Even the president admitted the raise was because 60% of our gas is imported. Why would they do this, do you ask? Because there’s a lot of corruption, foreign investors are giving money to politicians so they can take our oil and do whatever they wish to do with it.
They’re defunding Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) which used to be our only gas provider.
I’m also not mentioning how politicians have the highest salaries; they get paid about hundred of thousands of pesos a month while we barely get payed thousands, not to mention their food, gas, phone bills and travel expenses are payed with our taxes. So basically they don’t pay for anything at all. International media have reported that they get payed even more than royalty while we’re in crisis.
The president gave a speech giving a lot of excuses of why the gas price went up instead of owning up to his mistakes (he never does so idk why I expected he’d do it this time) and dared to ask what we would’ve done instead? Because he said that if he didn’t raise the gas price, social programs would suffer and that poor people only use 14% of gas. Like the food doesn’t use that gas for transportation, and I don’t want to remember what other kind of bullshit excuses he gave. Obviously we suggested cutting their salaries, stop feeding ex-presidents, for politicians to pay for their own services, sell their own White House (there was an scandal about that bc there was conflict of interests), the presidential plane (which is the most expensive in the whole world), etc.
The government and their party (PRI) have been paying people to cause riots during peaceful protests to delegitimize them and mark people as violent, but people aren’t believing that anymore and are catching those who are breaking and entering stores, so basically doing the police’s work.
A couple mins ago I read that riot police arrested a journalist during a protest and nobody knows where he is.
The protests are intensifying as we speak so please pay attention to Mexico right now because shit is getting real.
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