The young man detained by the National Guard in the CDMX Metro is a PRD militant

(Photo: Twitter/HendrikOrtega)

After the controversy that broke out because the National Guard (GN) detained a young man who protested the presence of the uniformed officers at the facilities of the Mexico City Metro Collective Transportation System (STC), this Saturday the identity of the subject.

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This is Hendrik Ortega, youth leader of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), an opponent of the government of the so-called “Fourth Transformation” (4T).

This was confirmed by the CDMX Secretary of the Interior, Martí Batres, during the press conference with the director of the Metro, Guillermo Calderón. And it is that they pointed out that many of the incidents in the transport service are caused by atypical events or “political intent” that have nothing to do with the lack of maintenance of the facilities; that is, sabotage to insult the administration of the head of government Claudia Sheinbaum, who is seeking the candidacy for the presidency in 2024.

(Screenshot: YouaTube/GobiernoCDMX)

He even reported that in the last hours it was detected that a person threw a can of beer at the Santa Anita station, on Line 8; as well as the theft of 45 meters of cable at the La Raza y Potrero station on Line 3.

“There are investigations that the Prosecutor’s Office (General Justice of the CDMX) is following and investigations are going to be carried out seriously, in depth. What we are pointing out is that they are events caused, in some cases, premeditated by someone, and other strange, rare events that do not occur regularly.

In this regard, Hendrik Ortega himself, who is also a counselor at the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), wrote this January 14 on his Twitter account that his militancy does not exempt the risky decision by the government. of the capital to send elements of the GN to monitor the Metro stations, which many opponents have described as “militarization.”

(Photo: Twitter/HendrikOrtega)

“Yes, I am a PRD member. But before that I am a citizen, I am a student and I use the Metro every day. I will never agree with military surveillance on public transport. His presence at the Tlatelolco station is a dishonor to the memory of the students repressed in 1968.”

It is worth mentioning that on social networks users have not only reported objects thrown on the tracks, but also failures in control panels, communication channels out of service, exploding tires, smoke, fires and even transfers with open doors.

Ortega was arrested on the afternoon of January 13 by members of the National Guard at the Tlatelolco station, on Line 3, when he was carrying a card with the message: “Militarizing the subway is not taking care of #FueraClaudia.”

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After the video showing the arrest went viral, the general director of the Metro assured that the elements were suspended and the young man was released immediately without any penalty.

The repression of this protest occurred almost at the same time that members of feminist collectives protested for the same reason and caused damage to the Bellas Artes station on Line 2, while several uniformed officers watched.

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