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Weekly Report - 15 September 2016 (WR-16-36)
MEXICO: Mass marches pile pressure on Peña Nieto
Not since the Cristero war (1926-1929) over the anti-clerical constitution of 1917 has government legislation on social and religious issues triggered such large marches. Myriad conservative social organisations grouped under the Frente Nacional por la Familia staged marches in 120 cities across Mexico on 10 September attended by tens of thousands of people. The main purpose of the marches was to protest against two legislative bills presented by President Enrique Peña Nieto to the federal congress in May which would reform the constitution to permit same sex marriage, as well as to denounce gender ideology, adoption by gay couples and to demand the protection of the ‘traditional family’.
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