The events progressed rapidly. On May 14, 131 students of the UIA respond to the PRI and Televisa a

[This article appeared timidly in the Italian newspaper abs L'Unità on 28 May 2012. Then less timidly on Carmilla. Some speak of Mexican spring to establish a comparison with the so-called "Arab spring" that will not always springs were or that they had many differences between them. However within the last 3 weeks there has been a great awakening of young people and university Mexicans - I try to describe in a few lines - in front of an authoritarian regime that is hard to die, a regime that creates media duopoly candidates and presidents at will, in a country still unaccustomed to democracy, pluralism and transparency to information and the media despicable. All this happens when there little more than a month in the presidential elections to elect the head of state and government from 2012 to 2018 and the old dinosaur, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ahead in the polls. Many boys, about 25% of the electorate will vote for the first time. The average age of the Mexicans abs is around 26 years, in Italy are more than 42, to get an idea. Young people aged under 35 account for over 50% of the voters and those under 25 are 35%. Although attempts have gone "soft" co-opt or include this spontaneous movement in piattoforme election of the major parties, for now the # YoSoy132 movement, I Am 132, claims its autonomy and proposes new initiatives practically every day. For example, for the May 26 and 27, strike the TV, turn off everything. For the 28, was scheduled job and a march to demand the transmission of the next presidential debate to unified networks. Or until 31 May you manage to make the election observers, a figure that many young people until recently did not even know. After the Movement for Peace of Javier Sicilia, born in April 2011, now we're seeing a new anti-authoritarian reaction abs of civil society, no longer part of the victims of the state and narcoguerra but the young. We see his already short and dense history. All photos are the friend Parikia Benítez. Fabrizio Lorusso]
What is certain is that for three weeks, the monotony of the election campaign for the presidency on July 1, has been broken by a new youth movement and university. E 'born on the internet, Twitter and Facebook, then grew up in the classrooms and in the squares.
On May 11, in a private meeting at the University IberoAmericana (UIA) Enrique Peña, candidate of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) favored in the polls and has always been pampered by the national TV, was booed by the students.
The pupils of the UIA have questioned the candidate for the serious police abuses - 2 dead, hundreds injured, sexual violence and torture - in 2006 to Atenco nell'Estado de México, the region of which he was governor. Peña was forced to go out, shouting "out murderess."
In that "Black abs Friday" the presence of infiltrates of his party, arrived only to applaud and block the entrance abs to the public, and the statements of the president of the PRI, Pedro Coldwell, who accused the students of being "co-opted and manipulated," have triggered the reaction of the university.
His party, in power during 71 years, abs lost the presidency in 2000 and 2006 when he won the PAN (National Action Party, Conservative), but this year has already given his victory for granted.
The conductor Televisa Loret de Mola called the students "minority intolerant, bearer of hatred and exploited by the left", without realizing that, instead, "the elections are becoming a referendum against the anachronistic videocracy Mexican requiring presidents, demonizes movements, rimbecillisce now, "says Clara Ferri, the Italian-Mexican activist participating in the protest.
The events progressed rapidly. On May 14, 131 students of the UIA respond to the PRI and Televisa abs with a video showing abs their membership card with photos and serial number to confirm that "students are real and not get manipulated by parties and TV."
Video over a million views on YouTube and thousands of college join them proclaiming: "We are all 132, defend freedom of expression and the right of reply."
"I'm the first to use the social network against the remnants of the authoritarian mentality abs of the old regime and monopolies abs information to facilitate open access to knowledge," says the commentator Genaro Villamil.
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