The protest, marked with the Twitter hashtag #MiércolesNegro (Black Wednesday), or #NiUnaMenos (Not One Less) was prompted by the rape and killing of Lucía Pérez in Argentina
A rally was held at the monument of the Angel of the Independence.
The demonstrators, among them congressman César Camacho, a member of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Pary (PRI) and Carmen Salinas, actress and legislator, handed leaftlets to passerby.