More than a million Mexicans marched in defense of life, women, and peace

By Raúl Tortolero

For the second consecutive year, the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM) called for a large march in all major cities in Mexico to defend life from conception, women, and advocate for peace, obtaining an even more positive response than that of 2021, with more than one million participants.

On Saturday, October 8, and Sunday, October 9 (it varied depending on each city), hundreds of thousands of people gathered in their cities to take to the streets in the face of the attacks of a socialist and progressive agenda that promotes abortion in the Chamber of Deputies, as well as in the state congresses and the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

Hundreds of citizen organizations, mostly pro-life, helped to invite people to the march.

This Sunday, October 9, in the country’s capital, there would be perhaps close to 300,000 people, as many as those gathered in last year’s march (October 3, 2021).

There were demonstrations in all the Mexican states, some more numerous than others.

But what stands out, in any case, is that people are starting to come out of their usual lukewarmness to start becoming warriors, mostly Christians.

However, it was not only a demonstration of Catholics -even though they are notoriously a majority in Mexico, comprising 77% of the population- but there were also many Protestants -11% of the population- and even atheists or agnostics, who came out to fight for the defense of the most fundamental human rights.

It is worth noting that most mainstream media ignored the marches without giving them any coverage.

In a context where their editorial line is notoriously progressive, pro-abortion, feminist supremacist, or clearly anti-church, or even left-wing government.

However, the social networks could reflect the truth that the usual media, attached to the agendas of “pro-globalist” supremacism, kept silent.

Without being a march managed by any party, some banners of the National Action Party (PAN) appeared, whose members, in their personal capacity, decided to support the march, and in doing so, they asserted the pro-life doctrine of their institute of formation, which has not changed, nor should it have to change.

For example, Congresswoman América Rangel, from the Mexico City Congress, her husband, Rafael Calderón, and the capital’s Congressman Raúl Torres – all three PAN members, participated in the march.

Together with members of some conservative organizations, such as the International Cristero Army (ECI), the team of the YouTube channel “Y que viva Cristo Rey” (in which there are Catholics and Anglicans), the National Synarchist Union, and JUVI (a young organization that defends the human rights of Mexicans at all stages) also marched.

“Once again, Guadalajara shows in its streets the commitment to life, family, women, and peace, the only way to solve the crisis of violence that we suffer in Jalisco and Mexico, today there will be similar marches all over the country,” tweeted Fernando Guzman, the Coordinator of Religious Affairs, Life and Family of the National Executive Committee of PAN.

Likewise, members of Eduardo Verástegui’s organization -one of the most prominent civic leaders of the new right, a film director with a profound and Christian message, and an organizer of CPAC Mexico-, Viva México, accompanied this Sunday’s march in Mexico City, such as Ferdinand Recio.

Frida Espinosa, the co-founder of JUVI, emphasized in her Twitter account a very important point, which differentiates the pro-life demonstrations from those of feminist supremacism: “Police in favor of life without being assaulted by anyone in the march”.

Dozens of important Catholic organizations, among them the Missionary Servants of the Word, were present, with Mario Zapata, who traveled with his contingent from Texcoco to participate in the capital, where the march began at the National Auditorium and ended at the Angel of Independence.

Members of the National Front for the Family also attended the important event.

“It is not enough to march in favor of life; the objective and main discourse of the marches must be to maintain the criminalization of the crime of abortion and return to it in the decriminalized states.

“Abortion is MURDER, it cannot go unpunished, and that must be the first demand,” tweeted the conservative platform Sublevados, where Catholics and Protestants coexist without problems.

In addition to the inhabitants of Mexico City, contingents from the State of Mexico, Morelos, Hidalgo, and Queretaro attended the event in the capital.

Besides pushing a conservative agenda and the defense of traditional Western values, these marches represent the resurgence of the new Mexican right wing, the construction of an updated conservatism, and the re-launching of not a few movements that claim to be “Cristeros”.

An allusion to those fighters of 1926, many of whom took up arms against the persecution of Plutarco Elías Calles, who wanted to suppress the Catholic religion in the country and ordered the assassination of priests and faithful, as well as the closing of temples.

Only now, the Cristero movements were pacifist and in no case armed, but very active.

Nevertheless, some right-wing leaders did not agree with the call for “women” since they considered it a certain concession to the “gender perspective”, and they would have preferred to call for participation in defense of the “family” and not only of one of its members.

Without there being a complete consensus on the demands of the marches concerning the federal government, legislators, and the SCJN, ACI Prensa mentions four points gathered from the speakers at the end of the march:

1. That law is generated in favor of women in vulnerable situations, which addresses the roots of their problems.
2. That the life of every human -before and after birth- be protected equally, without discrimination of any kind, whether by the level of development, health conditions, or for any other reason.
3. That public policy be generated in favor of peace and unity for all, especially within the family; and
4. That trust among citizens is recovered so we can live together in peace and harmony, without violence.

It should be added that in Mexico, the persecution against the human right to religious freedom and freedom of expression is going through a difficult moment, so these marches also worked as a counterweight to law initiatives that have wanted to “punish” ministers of worship.

Anyone who even thinks something that LGBT supremacism does not like would be considered “hate speech”. The cultural counterrevolution advances.

With information from Gaceta