Mass tourism protests turned violent in Mexico City Friday. The demonstrations reflect growing tensions over foreign investment and gentrification in Mexico. These forces are reshaping destinations across Mexico, including the Yucatán Peninsula. Hundreds of people marched through Mexico City’s Condesa and Roma neighborhoods. Both areas are popular with tourists. A smaller group later began smashing…
When protestors create traffic chaos, what’s a driver to do? From Tijuana to Tulum, blockades are a longstanding protest tactic in Mexico. One such protest snarled traffic Friday on one of the Yucatán’s most vital roads, the Mérida-Cancún federal highway. Vehicles backed up for miles in both directions on one of the busiest routes on…
The City Council announced plans to restore two Paseo de Montejo monuments that were vandalized by protestors nearly a year ago. Protective barriers were placed around monuments honoring Felipe Carrillo Puerto and Justo Sierra on Wednesday. The timing is curious. The next International Women’s Day is Wednesday. Last year’s march left statues, walls, and sidewalks…
Residents in Chemax, Yucatán, have brought nearby construction of the Mayan Train to a halt by barricading surrounding roads.
Business leaders in Yucatán are calling upon Gov. Mauricio Vila Dosal to ensure a speedy reopening of Dzibilchaltún.
At least eight different women’s rights groups organized several marches and protests on International Women’s Day.
After reopening just in time for the Tianguis Turístico Mexico, access to the archaeological site of Dzibilchaltún has been blocked off yet again.
Journalists across the country joined coordinated demonstrations to protest the murder of their colleagues.
Earlier this week a gay couple was kicked out of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Mexico City, in an act of alleged homophobia.
The protestors set up camp outside of the facility and took to laying on mats and pieces of cardboard to demonstrate their commitment to settling the issue without violence.
Feminist protestors unveiled a monument in Mérida’s Remate at the foot of the Paseo de Montejo to protest ongoing violence against women.
Indigenous groups from across Mexico, including Yucatán and Quintana Roo, sailed to Europe in what they describe as an invasion of conscience.
A group of protesters staged a demonstration in front of the monument to the Montejo, vandalizing it and chanting anti-colonialistic slogans.
A group of student activists led by Greta Thunberg has called upon Yucatán’s government to declare a climate emergency and start to take more serious and proactive moves to combat climate change.
Promotion of Housing Industry, says Mérida’s new multi-purpose stadium will increase property values in the city’s north.
Four days after tropical storm Grace battered the Yucatán Peninsula, thousands of residents are still without electricity.
According to some estimates, up to 600 children may have died over the last two years due to a lack of treatment.
An International Women’s Day march in Mérida highlighted growing issues of gender violence and inequality, ending with another monument covered with spray paint. The Monument to the Montejo, which has been under scrutiny, became the target of some protestors’ rage. The vandalism mirrored violence during the 2019 march, which focused its rage on a statue…
Residents of Mérida’s San Damian neighborhood gathered to protest the ongoing construction of a natural gas line running under their streets. Residents expressed concern that the natural gas running under their streets is dangerous and described the project as a ticking time bomb. Homeowners claim they were deceived into believing that the construction was for…
Medical students on Monday marched on Merida’s Paseo de Montejo to protest unsafe conditions. The protestors demanded answers for the deaths of three colleagues, among them Mariana Sánchez, who was murdered in rural Chiapas, where she interned. The protestors carried signs reading “do I have to die before the university does something?” and “Mom, sorry…
Civic groups and activists will join forces Sunday to publicly demand authorities get tougher with people found guilty of abusing animals. The march, which will be held under health safety measures, begins 8:30 a.m. at Parque de la Paz on Avenida Itzaes and will wind its way through Santiago to the Government Palace. Raúl Argáez,…
An estimated 1,000 cars formed a caravan from the state Congress to the Monumento a la Patria this morning to demand President Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador resign. The protest on the Paseo de Montejo is part of a national movement from the National AntiAMLO Front, or Frena. Organizers stayed in cars to avoid the spread…
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