Google+ Hangout: The #YoSoy132 student movement in Mexico

Al Jazeera hosted a Google+ debate discussing the #YoSoy132 student movement in Mexico.

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The idea of Mexicans re-electing a party which governed the country for 71 years in what the author Mario Vargas Llosa has called a "perfect dictatorship" is a terrifying prospect for young "netizens".

Using the hash tag #yosoy132 ("I'm 132") students have taken to twitter to denounce the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mexico's former ruling party, and the media who some young people believe is biased towards them.

The online campaign "is an answer to the corruption and impunity of the rulers of our country, it is hope for Mexico," Francisco Casahonda Rodríguez, a student from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and campaign organiser told Al Jazeera. "#yosoy132 is a new idea of democracy for Mexico; it's a building process which includes demands and feelings from the society."

In the latest opinion survey, where the consulting company Mitofsky took the average of six different polls, the PRI was leading its nearest challenger from the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) by 13 per cent, while the ruling conservative National Action Party (PAN) is running a distant third.

More on the story here: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/feat...

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[Luis Valle]

Excellent guys!!! I really like your movement. Yo tambien soy #132. Regards from Australia

[maineimisbeto]

More violence? With drug war is more than enough. Unfortunately, violence affects mainly innocent people, factual powers aren't even reached (By contrast, weapon companies are profited).

[peterHmode]

I hope she wont say again: Enrique Pena Nieto... (with that super strong mexican accent)

[peterHmode]

Only violent action can lead to changes! All the rest is child play in the garden and waste of time!

[maineimisbeto]

I don't think that a violent response could lead to a positive result, if any.

[tali434]

What I dont like is the way they approach their movement if they really are tired of the election process, the maniplation of information, they should become violent to put pressure on the ones on top.

[tali434]

The students dont try to persuade people to turn to one party and these students are complaigning about the corruption of the mexican election process and how the PRI has paid a lot of money to portray pena nieto as the savior of mexico.

[8legged]

he must be hoping to see people in white "manta" clothes with big "sombreros" talk about, monopoliz3ed media lol!

[Victor Castillo]

Saludos al movimiento, deseamos que ya pasen las elecciones para que puedan mostrar la verdadera fuerza del movimiento #YoSoy132UAM