The night of this Saturday April 20the New York alternative rock band Interpol offered a free concert in the Mexico City. Neither the stifling heat nor the afternoon rain were an impediment for thousands of people to gather on the plateau of the Plinth to enjoy the evening of almost two hours with Paul Banks and company.
With a completely packed Plaza de la Constitución, Interpol performed songs such as C’Mere, Say hello to the angels”, “Narc”, My desire”, “Lights”, “All the rage back home” and “Rest my chemistry”, perhaps one of the most anticipated songs of the night. “Mexico is always in our hearts“This is our second home, they have a special place in our hearts,” said Banks in perfect Spanish that shook all those in attendance.
According to the head of Government of Mexico City, Marti Batres Guadarrama, the Zócalo received 160 thousand people at last night’s concert; The capital’s president celebrated that thousands could enjoy this memorable presentation without having to pay, “the public, large influx of young people, He behaved wonderfully. Much joy and white balance”, he wrote on his X account.
The Photographs that the capital government, media and citizens shared on social networks show the packed Zócalo, the stage right in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral and in the middle, the enormous Mexican flag waving at times. For some this could be a beautiful picture of the city’s first painting, but for others it represented indignation.
The reason is that precisely for this concert, the Mexican Flag stayed in the Zócalo unlike in the past. 18th of Februarywhen the first ‘March for Democracy”, in which opponents, citizens critical of the government and activists marched to the National Palace to demand that the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador not to dismantle the National Electoral Institute (INE) and not intervene in the current electoral process, or even on Friday March 8when various demonstrations were carried out within the framework of the International Women’s Day.
At that time, the criticism for “having removed the Flag” They did not wait, although the AMLO spokespersonJesús Ramírez Cuevas, said to Radio Formula that they could not raise the Flag because the access to the first box from CDMX were closed, preventing the military from leaving in the morning to place it. And according to the Government of Mexico itself “In the capital’s Zócalo, a huge flag is raised every day at 6 am, and lowered at 6 pm”. Which means that after that hour, the Patriotic Labarum should no longer remain on the flagpole.
However, last night the Interpol concert began at 8:00 p.m. and ended minutes before 10:00 p.m. and the Lábaro Patrio was always there. “They left them the monumental flagunlike when those of us who are their critics congregate”, “They did leave the flag to them. Citizen marches are denied. Isn’t it that the flag is lowered at 6:00 p.m.? and for this reason they refused to raise it on February 26, 2023 and last February 18″ and “They do leave the flag to proselytizesquandering taxes with “austerity”, are some of the complaints on networks.
