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Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal - Video: GEN Z VS. THE PALACE - MEXICO’S NEW REBELLION HITS THE FRONT GATES
Mexico’s youth revolt just made a hard pivot from hashtags to the doorstep of power - and Claudia Sheinbaum is learning fast that metal barricades don’t stop a generation raised on boss-level gameplay.
The Gen Z anti-cartel movement, already the loudest thing in Mexico since the last peso crisis, pushed straight toward the Palacio Nacional.
Sheinbaum threw up fresh walls days ago - a symbolic panic button in steel - but the crowd didn’t blink at all.
They swarmed it, shook it, and ripped pieces down like it was bad set design.
Riot police responded with shields locked in a Roman testudo, the kind of formation that screams “We were not trained for this many teenagers with unlimited stamina and zero fear.”
It’s ancient warfare meets TikTok adrenaline.
This is far from a protest anymore. It’s a generational indictment of a government seen as too cozy with the cartels, too slow on justice, and too proud to admit the country is bleeding.
Sheinbaum wanted containment. What she got was a youth movement testing the perimeter of the presidency itself.
If the palace line breaks - even symbolically - game over.
If police crack down hard, the movement explodes.
If the government hesitates, it looks weak.
Mexico hasn’t seen a stress test like this in decades. And Gen Z?
They’re just getting warmed up.
Source: @visegrad24, Reuters
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