Author: Vanessa Garcia

We are all 132! Mexico’s Student Movement for Defense of the Vote

July 1, 2012

For Enrique Peña Nieto, the leading candidate in Mexico’s upcoming election, the worst day of his presidential campaign was the day that sparked “#Yo soy 132” (I am number 132), a youth movement for social justice. When the candidate visited Iberoamerican University–a private, Jesuit-run college in Mexico City–last month, a crowd of young people stood up and called him “coward,” “liar,” and “assassin.”

El dilema de México, ¿una democracia real?

July 1, 2012

Las campañas presidenciales han llegado a su fin y México se encamina a la recta final en la lucha por ejercer la democracia y elegir al que será el próximo presidente de la República.

¡Todos somos 132!

June 21, 2012

  [slideshow id=6] Concierto de #Soy132 en el Zocalo,  16 de junio. (Foto: Sebastian Pais) El peor día en la campaña del candidato puntero […]