Mexican president defends 10-foot barriers to wall off women protesters

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Saturday said a metallic barrier to wall off the presidential palace ahead of a planned women's march on International Women's Day was to avoid provocation and protect historic buildings from vandalism.

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Saturday said a metallic barrier to wall off the presidential palace ahead of a planned women’s march on International Women’s Day was to avoid provocation and protect historic buildings from vandalism.

In a country where femicides rose nearly 130% between 2015 and 2020, critics said the decision to erect the 10-foot-high barriers was symptomatic of Lopez Obrador’s apathy toward the crisis of violence afflicting women. “We have to avoid provocation of people who only want to cause damage,” Lopez Obrador said at an event in Yucatan. “Imagine, if we don’t take care of the national palace and they vandalize it. What image will this send to the world?”

“The presidency was stolen from us ... and we protested but never broke glass. ... I walked two, three times all the way from Tabasco to Mexico City,” he said. Lopez Obrador has repeatedly accused opponents of electoral fraud over the years.Interior Minister Olga Sanchez Cordero said on Twitter that the barriers were “for the protection of the women.”

 

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JLozanoA Trump followers have not just several metal-wall, but hundreds or militar men and woman in alert around Washington DC

JLozanoA Las verdaderas feministas están esté 8M en la Estela de Luz contra Gabriel Quadri que extorsionó sexualmente en la IBERO y Cuauhtémoc Gutierrez de la Torre que trataba como esclavas sexuales a las trabajadoras del PRI DF pero las feminazis no los tocan porque el PRIANRD les pagan

Mexican President pulls a Pelosi

But the U.S. border wall doesn't work 🥴!

Except it is not to 'protect' against women and it is not unlike the fence around the Capitol. The reasons for having a fence around the Capitol are the same reasons that fence was erected. Is Biden having to 'defend' the fence?

The mexican President endorses a RAPIST to be t Governor of the state of guerrero (site of Acapulco, where the girl traffic Is huge) you know where i am going? Is very sad what Is happening in México

those are some tall women!

There are more barriers around other places, like Bellas Artes palace, and try to prevent something like this

Protecting our historic monuments!

It seems lopezobrador_ resulted a good apprentice of DT. And Mexico paid the wall. Populist leaders are the same everywhere.

Where can i get such wall?! And what size is enough for one woman?!

Cc lopezobrador_ cobarde

Not gonna stop at 11 foot woman though.

machismo at its finest. How scary those women must be in country that treats them like garbage.

He believes walls work.

Freak and coward

thanks

That's hilarious.

How come I'm not hugely surprised.

oh common girls you can jump this 👍✌

Ahhhh socialism. Isn’t it great!

Women in mobs can become violent and unreasonable this is fine I understand his concerns.

Sounds a lot like what an orange guy did in the summer, except for he hid in the bunker as well.

Mexican trump

There's no walls in outer space

Women are vicious!

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