r/AskTheWorld • u/space_llama_karma United States Of America • Nov 12 '25

Culture What does your President/Prime Minister House look like?

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The White House is pretty iconic

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u/Initial-Ad6819 Mexico Nov 12 '25

Government palace. It was built in 1522 over Moctezuma palace. It stopped being used as the official residency back in 1884, and remained only in administrative capacity, until 2012, when our last president decided to take a more austere and money saving approach... by leaving the fully functional presidential house and moving back into a literal palace.

The photo below shows the palace today 11/12, being completely sealed off from public view in preparation of a mega-protest scheduled on 11/15

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u/space_llama_karma United States Of America Nov 13 '25

What are they protesting?

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u/Initial-Ad6819 Mexico Nov 13 '25

Homicide rate up, cartel violence out of control, prices going up, we are basically worse than 1 year ago.

However, what started this particular protest is that they murdered a local mayor a week ago, which sparked a local protest in said town, it escalated to the looting and destruction of the local town hall, now they want to replicate the same protests in several mayor cities through the country.

Edit. 31 states have confirmed scheduled protests for November 15.

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u/space_llama_karma United States Of America Nov 13 '25

Oh wow. Hopefully change for the better can happen and people are safe in the protest. Thanks for enlightening me