Dozens of people celebrate Newroz in Mexico City

Last year, the Newroz fire was lit in the state of Chiapas, where the Zapatista movement was born.

This year, dozens of Mexicans and people from other parts of Latin America came together for Newroz in the capital, Mexico City, enthusiastically responding to the call of the small number of Kurds living in the city.

The celebration took place in Los Dinamos Ecological Park in the southeast of the city.

People who came together on Monday morning, after walking along the river, reached the area where Newroz will be celebrated.

Decorating the area with yellow, red and green colours, Kurds and Latin Americans hung flags symbolizing their own people’s struggles next to the Kurdistan flags, turning the area into an international struggle area.

Everyone brought wood to grow the Newroz fire and prepared meals to share.

The friends of the Kurdish freedom movement gathered around a big table to enjoy the Newroz celebration for the first time.

At the table where the current situation in Kurdistan and the isolation on Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan were discussed, the vital importance of solidarity and common resistance among peoples was emphasized.

The group, which lit the Newroz fire by promising to expand the freedom struggle in 2022, especially in Kurdistan, Mexico, Colombia, Walmapu (Chile), jumped over the fire and danced halay to the accompaniment of Kurdish music.

Mexican Newroz celebrations continued until sunset, demanding freedom for Abdullah Öcalan.

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