[2] This protest encouraged not paying the fare and instead hopping over the metro turnstiles and avoiding the station police.
[3] People associated with the CNTE teachers' union and the National Autonomous University of Mexico also were said to be involved at the start of the movement, which the newspaper said was part of an international antiglobalization tendency.
[4] In the days after the protest began, so did arrests, mostly on lines 1, 2, 3, and 8 where more riders were jumping the turnstiles: 64 people were detained.
However it was not until April, 2014 that the then-head of government, Miguel Ángel Mancera, put forward an initiative in the legislative assembly that would impose fines or arrests against people who enter the metro without paying.
We simply want to ask that the facilities not be disturbed and that the video surveillance systems and turnstiles not be damaged," he had said on the day before the fare increases went into effect.