About 500 members of radical student and neighborhood activist groups
plastered boycott signs over the windows of U.S. fast-food restaurant
chains, hurled paint bombs at the Mexican stock exchange and burned the
American flag outside the U.S. Embassy during anti-war protests
Wednesday.
"This business belongs to the assassins who are killing innocent
people in Iraq. Don't finance the war!" read the black-and-white
fliers the protesters smeared on restaurant windows and the glass front
of the Mexican stock exchange. As they marched from the city's central
plaza, known as the zocalo, to the U.S. Embassy on the city's main
Reforma boulevard, protesters hurled paint bombs at Burger King and
Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, at a Sheraton hotel and at the
Mexican stock exchange and Mexico's foreign relations department. When
they arrived at the Embassy they burned large U.S. flags, and hurled
rocks, orange peels, eggs, and cow dung at shield-protected police
guarding the building.
Authorities told Mexican news media that the 500 protesters included
members of three groups:
- the General Strike Council, a radical student group that illegally
occupied and shut down Mexico's National Autonomous University for nearly
a year in 1999 and 2000;
- the Francisco Villa Popular Front, a rough-and-tumble group formed to
fight for affordable housing;
- and residents of San Salvador Atenco, who last summer waged violent
protests and seized hostages until the federal government abandoned plans
to construct a new international airport on their land.
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