Since
movement "Yo soy 132" ("I am 132") was born, first with college
students and now including citizens at large, one of the main requests
was the democratization of the media. This week they made public a video
titled "Luz132" ("#Light132") demonstrating some of the best known
cases of information mishandling by the media; they projected it on the
walls of Televisa's major building.
The closest
and maybe clearest example of this manipulation is the campaign created
around Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)'s candidate Enrique Peña
Nieto's character to position him as the favorite Mexican presidential
contender.
But the Yo
soy 132 movement is not the only one complaining about the tampering;
research conducted by foreign media agrees, and they even revealed
documents related to the strategy used. Both the PRI and Televisa
declined their association with said documents and even demanded an
apology by "The Guardian", the accusing British paper.
Luz132 talks
about the student massacre of 1968, oppression in 1971, the electoral
fraud of 1988, the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, and the
violent procedures taken in Aguas Blancas and San Salvador Atenco to
suffocate civil protests in 1995 and 2006 respectively.
Using
audiovisual support, Yo soy 132 wants the Mexican public to question
information given to them by the most official media since Televisa is
not only a television network, but it also owns printed and virtual
media.
On signs
during the many protest marches through Mexican cities, the word
"Televisa" appears constantly in various disapproving phrases.
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