Mexico City.- For committee leader 68, Félix Hernández Gamundi, fear infused through anarchists was able to undermine the attendance of the mobilization carried out on Wednesday. According to data from the Government of Mexico City, there were 22,000 people on the march for the 51st anniversary of the 1968 student movement.
Of that total, 12,000 were officials who made up the so-called “Peace Belt”. Questioned about the reduced attendance compared to the nearly 50,000 participants last year, Gamundi noted that an attempt was made to create panic for groups of hooded men.” The square (of the Zocalo) was full and there were people still coming in despite all the apocalyptic propaganda there was and all the intention of scaring people with the anarchists,” he said in an interview.
There was an attempt to create fear, they instilled fear with anarchists,” he added.
Hernandez Gamundi claimed that although there were attempted attacks, no intervention was made in the direction of the march.” People appeared in black, came in and incorporated most of them, joined the act and left. We know that there were some conatos over there by boys who started painting doors or fences,” he said. The people were attentive and interested. No doubt last year’s march was much larger, true, it was 50 years,” he said. We have to learn from these experiences, the campaigns of fear are useless, but either way we ask them not to do so, to stop campaigning for terror and tell the merchants of the Center that it is not of the protesters of those who have to be cared for r, that I hope we understand that we all have to be supportive of each other, including them,” he said.
