At least 22 were arrested and several injured in protests March 13 against the visit of President George Bush in the southern Mexican city of Merida, Yucatan. Hundreds also marched to the US Embassy in Mexico City, battling riot police with concrete blocks, metal bars and fire-crackers and tearing down barricades. Police responded with tear gas, pepper spray, and baton charges, throwing back rocks and clubbing demonstrators down. (El Universal [2], La Jornada [3], March 14)
See our last posts on Mexico [4], Yucatan [5] and Bush's Latin America tour [6].
