The LGBT+ pride march in Mexico City brought together more than a hundred thousand people on Saturday, June 29, who came to demand equal rights, while a demonstration is expected in Costa Rica. Major roads in the Mexican capital were colored with rainbow flags for several kilometers up to the large Zocalo square (unofficial nickname for Constitution Square), in a festive atmosphere.
“Enough of the discrimination! », “No more hate crimes!” », “Sexual freedom!”, the participants, more than a hundred thousand, chanted until nightfall, according to the organizers and the police. To the cries of « Justice ! »demonstrators grouped under the name of Dissident Bloc marched with a white coffin symbolizing LGBT+ people killed in Mexico.
The news portal Letra S estimates that 231 members of the LGBT+ community, mainly transgender, were murdered between 2001 and 2023 in the country.
Walking not allowed in Costa Rica
Like the Mexico City parade, a pride march is to take place on Sunday in San José, the capital of Costa Rica, and reach Democracy Square, opposite the Parliament. The planned demonstration led to the fall of the Minister of Culture and Youth, Nayuribe Guadamuz Rosales, dismissed on Saturday by the President, Rodrigo Chaves, for having granted official recognition to the initiative, in the form of a declaration of cultural interest.
A decision made “without the authorization of the president”who does not “did not know”, and which was canceled on Saturday, according to a government press release. According to the same source, the demonstration did not receive authorization from the authorities, which its organizers denied by maintaining the march.
“The formalities were completed as for any other activity”said Geovanny Delgado, a spokesperson for the Diversity March, calling Mr. Chaves’ decision an act “populist” et ” illegal “.
Elsewhere in Central America, in Guatemala, the Constitutional Court refused on Friday to ban the pride march organized in the capital on Saturday, rejecting a request from a conservative lawyer, but ordered the government to ensure the « protection » of the “values” and some « morale ».
