Overview
- Police in Ciudad Juárez detained two muralists and 13 others as they painted a satirical image of Mayor Cruz Pérez Cuéllar with pig features.
- The mayor said he learned of the arrests by phone and told the public security chief to free everyone within hours.
- Officials cited alcohol at the scene as the reason for detention, and the mayor later called the case minor and said a warning would have sufficed.
- He acknowledged the public would assume he ordered the crackdown and pledged to respect future protests, though the mural was erased.
- The episode, reported by El Heraldo de México, highlights ongoing tensions in Mexico over limits on free expression and police responses to political art.