Paint Remover: Mexico Activists Attempt to Drone Out Beleaguered President Sam Jones - The Guardian
go to original October 16, 2015

Although opponents of Enrique Peña Nieto are lacking in neither number nor novel protest strategies, his latest critic has her own special way of expressing disdain for Mexico’s embattled president.

Rather than taking to the streets, she hovers over them; rather than bellowing her grievances, she levels a canister of spray-paint at a portrait of Peña Nieto and disgorges its contents until his head is lost in a blood-red blur.

Billed as Mexico’s first graffiti-artist drone, Droncita (Dronette) is the newest recruit to the protest movement that erupted in the country after Peña Nieto was elected in 2012, and which has swelled in the wake of the unsolved disappearance last year of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college.

The case has become a symbol of the culture of narco-violence, corruption and impunity in a country where, according to the UN, more than 150,000 people were killed between December 2006 and August this year. At least 26,000 people are also estimated to have gone missing since 2007 – many as a result of enforced disappearances.

Droncita’s comrades in the Rexiste collective introduced their “little sister” to the world at the end of September via a YouTube video. (See above)

In it, footage of Droncita spraying over the presidential countenance is accompanied by a voiceover in which she addresses both Mexico and its leader, accusing the state and the security forces of involvement in the students’ disappearance.

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