Mexican Student Movement Challenges Media Manipulation of Elections

2012-06-26 · first published in marxsite · 120 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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Written by Ela Stapley Monday, 18 June 2012 18:42 Diana Ponce has a cardboard box on her head. Her face peers out through a square hole. She smiles and lifts her hands drawing attention to the fake TV buttons placed on the side and the antenna poking out on top. Diana, a 22-year-old student of mathematics, is a member of the Mexican student movement, Yo Soy 132. On May 11, a large group of students at the IberoAmericano, one of Mexico City’s private universities picketed a campaign event by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, candidate Enrique Peña Nieto. Waving banners and with shouts of “Coward” and “The Ibero doesn’t want you” they forced Peña Nieto to cut short his visit.