Marchers across Mexico vent anger over Trump, and their own president

Thousands of protesters in more than a dozen Mexican cities took to the streets on Feb. 12 to express their fierce opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump, portraying the new leader as a menace to both America and Mexico. 

Waving Mexicans flags and hoisting anti-Trump signs in both Spanish and English, some vulgar, many protesters also heaped scorn on their own president, deriding Enrique Pena Nieto as a weak leader who has presided over rampant corruption and violence at home. 

Trump and Pena Nieto have been locked in battle over their countries' deep ties for months, even before Trump won the presidency with promises to get tougher on immigration and trade from Mexico. 

Mexico fears Trump's policies could send Latin America's second biggest economy into crisis. 

Many marchers carried Mexican flags and dressed in white as a sign of unity and to signal the non-political nature of the march. One of the banners read: "Gracias, Trump, for unifying Mexico!"

The marchers protested Trump's plans for a border wall and increased deportations of migrants. Trump has also pressured U.S. corporations to provide jobs in the United States, not Mexico.

In a rare display of national unity, marchers and organizers came from across the country's deeply polarized political factions, encouraged in part by a pro-march ad campaign by Televisa, the country's dominant broadcaster. 

Local officials estimated that a total 30,000 marched in the country's two largest cities, Mexico City and Guadalajara. 

In the Mexican capital, two separate marches converged on the Angel of Independence monument on the city's leafy Paseo de la Reforma avenue. 

"He's such a bad man and he shouldn't act the way he does," said 62...