Movement "Yo soy 132" ("I am 132") was born as a protest from the student community of the Universidad Iberoamericana to presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto's visit.
After members of the Institutional Revolution Party (PRI) claimed that the young protesters had been paid by opposing political parties, the students made a video where 131 of them stated that they had protested of their own free will. This event motivated Mexican people to join from all over the world; from out of Mexico and from the country itself, from artists to intellectuals they all became "Yo soy 132" ("I am 132").
Just a few days before the Mexican presidential elections take place, the now civil movement has launched many ways of monitoring the elections and, through Twitter, they have addressed international media like the New York Times, CNN, and the Huffington Post as well as international figures like Katy Perry, Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. On all occasion they used the #MexicoSOS132 hashtag and linked a video asking celebrities and the international press to join in their effort to protect Mexican democracy because theirs would be "voices impossible to keep quiet".
brenda.colon@sandiegored.com
Original Text : Brenda Colón
Translation : Karen B.
