LatinNews Daily Report - 24 May 2012

POLITICS| New youth movement is born. On 23 May one of the leaders of the ‘Yo soy 132’ youth movement, Rosana Holsch, said that the movement, which has been staging demonstrations against the presidential candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Enrique Peña Nieto, and the local media who they accuse of backing him, will continue even after the 1 July general elections. The movement was born after a group of 131 students confronted and jeered at Peña Nieto during a rally at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City on 11 May. After the event, the students were described as “agitators” by some local media outlets such as the main TV broadcaster ‘Televisa’. This led the group to launch a campaign via social media sites, whereby they claim to represent an important section of the young population that is generally dissatisfied with Mexico’s political class. Since then they have successfully staged a number of mass demonstrations around Mexico City to express their discontent. Holsch, who is one of the original 131 students, said that the movement is strongly opposed to the manipulation of the media by politicians that try to paint an inaccurate situation of the state of the country, defining themselves as “nonpartisan, pacifist and with no clear leadership”. 

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