coldhearted scientist وداد

Troubling signs that the PRI’s repressive ways could return to the national stage were on display in the violence that took place on December 1 in the streets of Mexico City, as Peña Nieto was being inaugurated. Dozens of protesters were brutally beaten by the police, and some were severely wounded. Meanwhile, small groups of youth — supposedly anti-Peña Nieto protestors — threw Molotov cocktails at the Chamber of Deputies and meandered freely through downtown, destroying shop windows. The police then arbitrarily detained dozens of non-violent protesters, many of them students, who had nothing to do with those who may have committed crimes, sending a clear message that no forms of protest or resistance to authority are to be tolerated. Many of them still languish in jail awaiting trail and are already considered to be the first political prisoners of the new regime.

–J. Ackerman, read on.

Axé.