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September 16, 2016

Mexico: Thousands Call for President Peņa Nieto's Resignation
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In Mexico, thousands of people marched in downtown Mexico City calling
for the resignation of Mexican President Enrique Peņa Nieto on the eve
of Mexico's Independence Day over the violence and corruption across the
country.

Alicia Mercado: "It is time to say long live Mexico, but also emphasize
a Mexico for us. And it's time to say that Peņa has go to go. Peņa out!
That is why I'm here, because I'm fed up with our bad government. Mexico
smells like death, because all of its territory is a common grave full
of assassinated and disappeared people and the journalists who are
killed for saying the truth."

The protest comes as Peņa Nieto also continues to face backlash after
meeting with Donald Trump in Mexico City last month, only hours before
Trump went on to give a fiery speech in Phoenix in which he promised to
deport 2 million people within his first hour in office, if elected.
Last week, Mexico's finance minister, who orchestrated Trump's visit,
resigned.
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