HUEHUETOCA, MEXICO STATE--Around 2 o'clock on Saturday morning, November 2, 2013, a group of youth left a dance and suddenly found themselves in the middle of a street fight. This fight was near the City Hall of Huehuetoca, near Mexico City, where a policeman shot 14 year old Christian Daniel Santillán Martinez, killing him instantly and wounding his uncle.
We live in an insecure society especially for youth who want to have healthy fun and don't know what danger could lie around the corner. Tired of police abuse and seeing that police don't protect them and only want to rob them, the residents of the area smashed two police cars and set fire to the town hall with candles that had been placed at the entrance for the Day of the Dead. They also poured gasoline, causing the fire to spread faster.
The next morning, 300 police came to guard what was left of the building. They arrested three policemen, but the one who shot the youth had fled. Relatives and villagers protested in front of the police with messages like, "The police don't protect, they murder."
Huehuetoca is a city with economic growth that has benefitted the bosses. That's why they need to use police terror to guarantee profits flowing from exploiting farmworkers. We workers don't need police; we need to build our party, the ICWP, to fight for a world without oppressors and murderers. We need a communist world in which we workers will be in charge of our security. There won't be city halls, jails, courts, or police which represent the bosses' tyranny.