El Comandante Hernndez leads Tree Army in defense of Mexico Citys trees [Video]

By Julián Trejo Bax The Associated Press

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Scooting on his electric skateboard through a southern Mexico City neighborhood, Arturo Hernández spots a likely target for his next action and uploads a photo to social media calling his followers to help. A couple of days later, he and several of them are swinging sledgehammers at a thick layer of concrete suffocating the roots of an ash tree when a pair of police officers arrive and ask to see a permit.

“We do not need permits to liberate the tree,” Hernández tells one of the officers with a grin. “It’s as if you asked me to have a permit to pick up trash from the street.”