Overview
- Authorities estimated roughly 400,000 attendees on the Zócalo, reported as a new attendance record for the plaza.
- The open-air event proceeded without incidents and was Mexico’s first mass gathering of hundreds of thousands since unrest following the military’s killing of a powerful drug boss a week earlier.
- Mexico City mayor Clara Brugada praised the night on X, calling the square “full of magic, music and incredible energy.”
- The concert capped a Mexico run on Shakira’s Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour that included a record 13 shows at Estadio GNP and about 800,000 tickets sold.
- She is slated to give another free concert at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach on May 2, with coverage noting Lady Gaga drew about 2.5 million there last year.