Mexican Movement fights 'imposition' of PRI’s Enrique Pena Nieto

by Dan La Botz · 2012-08-05 · first published in Links · 191 words

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By Dan La Botz

July 29, 2012 -- New Politics , posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission

Inspired by the # YoSoy132 ( #Iam132 ) student movement and forming part of the newly organised National Front Against Imposition, on July 27 some 10,000 people initiated a 24-hour symbolic siege of the Mexico City broadcast centre of Televisa, the institution they see as representing the economic elite’s control of the political process. Many spent the night in tents, some wearing the Guy Fawkes masks inspired by the film V for Vendetta that were so popular during the Occupy movement's encampments in the United States. At the same time, hackers supporting the movement succeeded in infiltrating the Televisa system and sending Televisa twitter messages against Peña Nieto.

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