A group of women who participated in the 8M march carried out a series of acts of vandalism at the monument to Felipe Carrillo Puerto, located on Paseo de Montejo, and at the Palacio de la Música where they vandalized the facade.
With hammers and spray paint, the women, most of them with their faces covered, hit until they broke the boards that protected the monument, which was vandalized last year and was walled up to be recovered, and climbed up to spray paint it.
Vandalizan monumento a Felipe Carrillo Puerto en Paseo de Montejo durante marcha de mujeres en Mérida pic.twitter.com/fxIle3YYmq
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This group of women also set fire to the wooden boards around the monument. At that moment, SSP firefighters arrived to put out the flames.
V4ndal¡zan monumento a Felipe Carrillo Puerto en Paseo de Montejo durante marcha de mujereshttps://t.co/izg4uBJKt5 pic.twitter.com/gHydIhClCm
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After two years, when they were vandalized in the march on March 8, 2022, the Mérida City Council announced that it would invest around one million pesos in the rescue of the monuments to Felipe Carrillo Puerto and Justo Sierra in the Paseo de Montejo.
Subsequently, the feminists moved to the Plaza Grande where they set fire to the tourist letters “Mérida”, as well as painted slogans on the pavement along the way. They were also placed in front of the Municipal Palace.
The Merida City Council reported that “a record of the events was kept to evaluate the possibility of proceeding through administrative and legal channels against those responsible.”
According to the police report, some men also participated in the riots.
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