Chinese Embassy ‘Suggested’ Mexico City Attack on Falun Gong Float

The Chinese Embassy in Mexico City had a local powerbroker in Chinatown wreck a Falun Gong parade float two weeks ago. Attempting to make the group invisible, the action instead gave Falun Gong national prominence and sympathy.
Chinese Embassy ‘Suggested’ Mexico City Attack on Falun Gong Float
WRECKER SERVICE: The men sent to dismantle the Falun Gong parade float worked quickly and efficiently. The local powerbroker who ordered them to do so, Hector Lopez, said it was on the 'suggestion' of the Chinese Embassy, which seeks to silence Falun Gong around the world. Miguel Mendoza Castro/The Epoch Times
Matthew Robertson
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<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/2011-02-05_15-34-24_675_medium.jpg"><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/2011-02-05_15-34-24_675_medium.jpg" alt="WRECKER SERVICE: The men sent to dismantle the Falun Gong parade float worked quickly and efficiently. The local powerbroker who ordered them to do so, Hector Lopez, said it was on the 'suggestion' of the Chinese Embassy, which seeks to silence Falun Gong around the world. (Miguel Mendoza Castro/The Epoch Times)" title="WRECKER SERVICE: The men sent to dismantle the Falun Gong parade float worked quickly and efficiently. The local powerbroker who ordered them to do so, Hector Lopez, said it was on the 'suggestion' of the Chinese Embassy, which seeks to silence Falun Gong around the world. (Miguel Mendoza Castro/The Epoch Times)" width="320" class="size-medium wp-image-120769"/></a>
WRECKER SERVICE: The men sent to dismantle the Falun Gong parade float worked quickly and efficiently. The local powerbroker who ordered them to do so, Hector Lopez, said it was on the 'suggestion' of the Chinese Embassy, which seeks to silence Falun Gong around the world. (Miguel Mendoza Castro/The Epoch Times)
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.