Kidnap Protesters Ram Pickup Truck Through Doors of Mexico's National Palace

A crowd of demonstrators demanding a meeting with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in connection with the notorious 2014 Iguala mass student kidnapping used a pickup truck to smash down the doors of the National Palace in Mexico City. Footage filmed by Maria Fernanda Guzman Ramirez on March 6 shows the white truck being used to smash through the doors. The demonstrators "managed to open the door to the lateral access 1 of the National Palace, using a truck from the Federal Electricity Commission that was at the scene," Guzman Ramirez told Storyful. She https://twitter.com/ferguzauria/status/1765396454330233016 said the group did not advance beyond entranceway. https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/normalistas-de-ayotzinapa-intentan-entrar-a-palacio-nacional/ According to El Universal , the protesters were demanding a meeting with the president, who was https://twitter.com/lopezobrador_/status/1765366524045598751 inside the building at the time . Lopez Obrador called the action of the protesters a "provocation," local media https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024/03/06/politica/protestas-por-el-caso-ayotzinapa-son-una-provocacion-en-contra-de-mi-gobierno-amlo-1816 said . He indicated he would be willing to meet with the parents of the missing, and current students. (Footage by Maria Fernanda Guzman Ramirez/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)