Yesterday, March 20, 2023, at 6:00 pm, a rally took place in front of the Mexican Honorary Consulate in Düsseldorf. It joins a series of other actions in the FRG and internationally that support the broad resistance movement of poor peasants and indigenous peoples in Mexico against the construction of the so-called Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT).

For about an hour, a banner with the slogan “The Interoceanic Corridor plunders and kills poor peasants and indigenous peoples in Mexico!” along with red flags with hammer and sickle was carried at the street of the Honorary Consulate, while music was played and combative and loud slogans were raised in German and Spanish. In various short speeches, the situation in Mexico in general was presented and the terror against the poor peasants and indigenous peoples of Mexico was denounced. One of the speeches explicitly pointed out the role of Yankee imperialism in regards to the construction of the CIIT, and another denounced the attack on the peasant community of Rincón Tagolaba on January 29 of this year, as well as the cowardly murders of comrades Filogonio Martínez Merino and Jesús Manuel García Martínez “Chu Pau” at the end of last October. At the end of the rally, the participants moved as a group directly in front of the entrance to the Mexican Honorary Consulate.

The Mexican Honorary Consulate is located in the Düsseldorf Trade Fair complex in the Stockum district, which is why the rally attracted the attention of a large number of people who were attending an ongoing wine fair. Even though a large portion of the audience there was very bourgeois, the rally was nevertheless met with approval by quite a few people – some of whom had friends or family in Mexico – and it was often photographed or filmed by people passing by with their smartphones.

In front of the entrance to the Mexican Honorary Consulate

In the run-up to the rally, a graffiti with the slogan “The Interoceanic Corridor plunders and kills poor peasants and indigenous peoples in Mexico!” was also documented in the train station of the Bergeborbeck district in the city of Essen and sent to us, which we would also like to share with you here.