Protesting students use truck to ram down doors of Mexico City's National Palace
Protesters commandeered a pickup truck and used it to ram down the wooden doors of Mexico City’s National Palace as they protested the kidnapping and abduction of 43 students 10 years ago.
MEXICO CITY — Protesters commandeered a pickup truck Wednesday and used it to ram down the wooden doors of Mexico City’s National Palace.
They battered down the doors and entered the colonial-era palace, where the president lives and hold his daily press briefings, before they were driven off by security agents. The palace is a historic structure dating back to the 1700s and was built on the site of the Aztec emperors’ palace.
The demonstration, like many others over the years, was called to protest the abduction and murder of 43 students a decade ago.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the protest a provocation, and claimed the demonstrators had sledgehammers and blowtorches.
“This is a movement against us,” López Obrador said. “The plan is to create a provocation.”
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