Just before noon on April 20, 2026, a gunman opened fire on the steps of the Pyramid of the Moon, a 2,000-year-old Mesoamerican Pyramid and popular tourism site located in Teotihuacan, roughly one hour outside of Mexico City. Dozens of international tourists were trapped on the pyramid’s first landing, forced to lie on the structure’s cobblestone platform as the gunman paced back and forth with a Smith & Wesson Model 10 snub nose revolver and a black plastic bag loaded with dozens of extra rounds of .38 special ammunition. “You who have come from Europe will not return,” the gunman, later identified as 27-year-old Julio César Jasso Ramírez of Mexico City, shouted at his hostages in a dialect of Spanish not typically spoken in Latin America. (…) The dramatic altercation ended when Mexico’s National Guard shot Jasso in the leg, after which he shot himself in the head. The tourists Jasso trapped on the landing quickly broke free and frantically fled the scene; six suffered injuries in their panicked escape down the pyramid’s steps. Along with a framed, AI-generated image of himself alongside the Columbine school shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Jasso allegedly carried photos of himself performing Roman salutes in the style of Nazi Germany, an act he had been fond of performing for the last ten years, Telediario reported. (…) The Teotihuacan shooting and the fascist orientation of its perpetrator, while having no substantive ties to any official groups, is indicative of a rising tide of xenophobic nationalism within Mexico, which has seen an influx in inequality and affordability since the beginning of the 21st Century that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This form of far-right reactionary thought, which borrows heavily from European fascism and white supremacy, is unlike other far-right movements in both its anti-imperialism and pride in indigeneity.
via unicorn riot: The Teotihuacan Pyramid Shooting; Mexico’s Post-Racial Nazis
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