Members of the Lesbobatukada GDL movement reported that they were detained by police while participating with merchants in a protest against the closure of Parque Rojo in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
Manuel Romo, secretary general of the Guadalajara City Council, reported that nine people were arrested for administrative offenses and that they are currently “assessing their offense in the Civic Court located on Calzada Independencia.”
In an interview with the media, he indicated that only five women were detained: Nohemí, Alicia, Rosa, Alexis, Júpiter, and four men: Marco Francisco, Martín, and Roberto.
Meanwhile, the Mexican Institute for Community Development (IMDEC) confirmed that the detained activists are 10 women.
Romo stated that this is the third time that a group of protesters and merchants from the park have not accepted or wanted to relocate, and have only relocated where they can operate their businesses.
“The main avenues of Guadalajara, such as Avenida Juárez and Federalismo, have been closed. On this occasion, starting at 7:00 a.m., a group of approximately 70 people closed the main avenues. We conducted several exercises to approach them, talk to them, and ask them to leave. This situation reached such a point that they began attacking police officers and some civilians,” the official explained.
He indicated that there will be a meeting on Monday with a representative of the merchants who demonstrated this morning.
“The other people insist on being in that same space, and the reality is that it is impossible for them to work in a place that is being intervened, much less on the public thoroughfares of these main avenues,” he added.
They denounce that women “were subjected to brutality.”
For its part, the Jalisco Feminist Front movement denounced that the women were brutally subjected to police brutality.
“We experienced an extremely outrageous event upon seeing the videos of three members of the GDL Lesbobatukada, along with merchants, women and men in resistance who were protesting against displacement at the intersection of Juárez and Federalismo. In the middle of the street, they were dragged and beaten along Avenida Juárez, forcibly put into patrol cars, and have since disappeared without official information,” they stated.
They demanded immediate restitution, as they were exercising their right to freely demonstrate and therefore committed no crime.
“This is not ‘public security,’ it is forced detention and disappearance, state-sponsored lesbophobia, and cultural cleansing, serving corporate and foreign interests ahead of the 2026 World Cup,” they stated.
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They demanded that Guadalajara Mayor Verónica Delgadillo “immediately present our colleagues, merchants, and other protesters alive” and that Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus stop the repression and guarantee full respect for the peaceful protests of women and men.
“State Human Rights Commission, act now: visit, document, and protect our colleagues, women and men who were detained today, and demand their unconditional release. Absolute transparency: report where and under what conditions they are being held,” the statement added.
They urged exemplary punishment for those who ordered and carried out “this forced disappearance.”
“We have the face of the person who led the operation; in the comments of this post, we have attached his photograph so that there is no impunity,” they stated.
Source: animalpolitico
