A Lot of People and a Lot of Tear Gas Canisters

I just got back from the Plaza Principal where it looks like a crowd larger than any so far in this protest is gathering for a 3pm Cabildo. An hour before the scheduled start there were already 2,000-3,000 people gathered and thousands more marching in, a procession at least another six blocks long. Some noticeable differences from last week – almost no one was carrying sticks (which everyone seemed to have last week); there were many more women; and there were a good number of babies and children.

In the blocks surrounding the Plaza there are also many more police than I have seen since all this started, many more than there were this morning. And those police are very, very well armed with tear gas. Each one typically had three large canisters strapped to his/her belt and most carried gas-firing rifles.

What all this means we will see, but we'll have a report from the Plaza when things start later on.