Alleged Gun Threat to Delivery Worker Draws Mexico City Protest
Delivery workers gathered Nov. 10 at a Benito Juárez building after a video showed an alleged gun threat. Groups cite 47,137 robberies since 2017.
Delivery workers for digital platforms gathered at a building in Mexico City’s Benito Juárez borough (alcaldía) on the night of Nov. 10 and demanded that authorities step in. They were reacting to a video shared on social media, which shows a man who came out with a firearm and allegedly threatened a delivery worker, according to Expansión. The newspaper reported that the man was identified as the partner of someone involved in the dispute.
Organizations that represent couriers say the episode is part of a wider pattern of violence on the job and of a lack of effective protection for the people who do it.
The protest and who took part
The recording angered other platform workers, who went to the property to press for a response. Saúl Gómez Piña, founder of Ni Un Repartidor Menos A.C. (Not One Delivery Worker Fewer), told Expansión that his organization was not part of the mobilization.
Gómez Piña nonetheless considers the workers’ reaction a sign of discontent that has built up over insecurity and the absence of answers from authorities. He attributed the protests to exhaustion with officials who do not support couriers, and he described violence against app-based delivery workers as disastrous.
The figures behind the complaints
The concern predates this incident. In August 2026, Ni Un Repartidor Menos A.C. and the collective Ni Una Repartidora Menos (Not One Female Delivery Worker Fewer) released a report on crimes and attacks against platform workers in Mexico City.
According to the records of the two groups, from 2017 through Aug. 5, 2026 they counted 47,137 robberies (asaltos) against couriers in the capital. They also counted 23 workers killed, 21 of them men and two women.
The report identified 297 attacks on women couriers. The collectives say only three of those were formally reported to authorities.
Why it matters for people who work on delivery apps
The two organizations estimate that just 1.7% of the robberies they recorded are reported to authorities. They attribute the gap to distrust of institutions and to the difficulty victims face in starting and following through on legal proceedings. Because most cases never enter an official file, the groups’ own tallies are the main public count of what couriers experience on the street.
For the workers who went to the Benito Juárez building, the confrontation captured on video fit that account of daily risk. Gómez Piña’s organization says it is the lack of a response from officials that drives people to protest in person. Expansión’s report does not include a statement from city authorities on the incident or on the workers’ demands.
Source: Expansión
