Mexicans on Facebook, their top 10 trends for 2014!

FIFA'S World Cup, Gustavo Cerati's death, among others

By Elizabeth Rosales2014-12-10T17:20:00+00:00

MEXICO.  Every December, social media and Internet researchers reveal the year's highlights according to the number of mentions they had from the average user.

This 2014, several stories change the course of Mexican history in different aspects of life. In sports, we had FIFA's World Cup, the XLVIII Super Bowl and Sochi's Winter Olympics.

In entertainment, the loss of Robin Williams and Argentinean songwriter Gustavo Cerati. Also, Mexico was troubled by other situations such as the mysterious disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight and the Gaza strip conflict.

Let's not forget the very fun (but hated by many) "Ice Bucket Challenge". Did you participate? Some of these events seem as though they were a long time ago, but they all happened in 2014.

Here, is a list of all the things that shook the ground in the past months according to Facebook. Did we miss something? Let us know in our comment section.

In Mexico:

1. - FIFA's World Cup:

It seemed as Mexico wouldn't obtain their pass to the 2014 World Cup, in Brazil. Once inside of the arena, and precisely on their second encounter against the hosting country, Mexico celebrated a tie with a final scoreboard of 0-0.

News and paper headlines celebrated goalie Memo Ochoa by reminiscing his great accomplishment of "saving" the three colored team and staying in the game. Later on, the "no era penal" ("it wasn't a penalty" flooded our social media's newsfeed for weeks. Mexico lost against Holland, after a last minute penalty scored by midfielder Arjen Robbe.

2. - Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was arrested:

The arrest of the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel was announced in late February.

There were a lot of conspiracy theories on Facebook about what led to "El Chapo's" arrest, arguing that it was just a mere smokescreen to "cover up the increasing delinquency in the country", as claimed by Michoacán's self-defenses.

In addition, other groups said it was an attempt to cover up "the failure of the Free Trade Agreement and the recent approval of the so called structural reforms that will deepen the crisis", or so said the president of the National Regeneration Movement (Movimiento de Regeneracion Nacional, MORENA, in Spanish).

3. - Pope Francisco:

This year, the Catholic leader achieved the Synod approval for homosexual acceptance which, according to a document released by the Vatican, states that they too "have gifts and attributes to offer".

Also, he was elected by Twitter as the most influential man.

4. - Enrique Peña Nieto:

Few things caused such indignation among Mexicans as the appearance of President Enrique Peña Nieto on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "Saving Mexico". This happened back in February, after a series of structural reforms were put forward by Peña in matters of taxation, education, security and energy, to name a few.

5. - Gustavo Cerati:

After four years in a comma, after suffering a heart attack, Spanish rock legend passed away in September.

6. - Cristiano Ronaldo:

Whether it's his contributions towards soccer, or the world of fashion, Cristiano Ronaldo is someone everybody talked about for many reasons. One of them being that he appeared naked on the cover of Vogue alongside girlfriend Irina Shayk. Although we shouldn't lessen his professional accomplishments, according to UEFA he was named as 2013-2014 Best Player in Europe this year.

7. - Conflict in Gaza:

As consequence of the conflict between Palestine and Israel for the Promised Land, more than one thousand people died in the Gaza strip.

8. - Lionel Messi:

He was named this year's best soccer player, and he also received a golden soccer ball for being the best player in the World Cup.

9. - Ayotzinapa disappearances:

The Iguala case has moved thousands in Mexico City, with historic attendances of 100,000 protesters that demand the return of the 43 teacher-trainees of Ayotzinapa alive.

The violence, crime and impunity that was planted in the state with the collaboration organized crime, set off a bomb that yells for justice in the streets of different parts of the world. Its reach and power of summons, has achieved until now, the arrest of Iguala's mayor, the Mancera's Secretary of Public Security resignation, as well as the governor's license in Guerrero.

10. - Ebola:

A virus that has taken thousands of lives in Africa, threatening to spread to the United States.

Worldwide:

1.- FIFA's World Cup

2.- Ebola outburst

3.- Brazil elections

4.- Robin Williams death

5.- Ice Bucket Challenge

6.-Palestine and Israel conflict

7.- Malaysia Airlines flight disappearing case

8.-Super Bowl

9.- Ferguson's Michael Brown murder