For most people Saturday is a day for chilling out. But not perhaps when you have something on your mind that seriously bugs you.
Three protest marches in Guadalajara last Saturday brought activists out in force but tested the nerves of city drivers. Around noon, some 200 teachers angry at federal reforms that oblige them to take periodic exams tussled with anti-riot police as they were blocked from marching to the governor’s residence, Casa Jalisco. Turned back, they headed for a rally at the Minevera Glorieta, which quickly became gridlocked.
A few hours later, around 700 people demanding equal rights for the LGBT community began a march from Avenida Chapultepec to the Guadalajara Cathedral, provoking chaos in the downtown zone.
And if that wasn’t enough disruption, at 7 p.m. around 7,000 taxi drivers and family members marched from the Minerva to the Parque Revolucion to draw attention to the growing threat to their livelihoods posed by rival firms such as Uber.