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MEXICO IS HAVING THE LARGEST PROTEST THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN MEDIA BLACKED IT OUT - YouTube

The Mexicans are not satisfied with their government, the people of the USA should do the same and the political crooks will have to listen.

MEXICO IS HAVING THE LARGEST PROTEST THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN

Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Mexico City on Saturday to protest against Enrique Peña Nieto's apparent win in the country's presidential election, accusing his party of buying votes and paying TV networks for support.

Demonstrators were angered by allegations that Peña Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI) gave out groceries, pre-paid gift cards and other goods to voters before the national elections on 1 July.

Students, unionists and leftists in Mexico City carried signs reading: "Peña, how much did it cost to become president?" and "Mexico, you pawned your future for 500 pesos."

Officials estimated about 50,000 demonstrators gathered at the central Zocalo plaza.

"The fraud was carried out before (the election), buying votes, tricking the people," said Gabriel Petatan Garcia, a geography student who carried a sign in Finnish. Protesters also carried signs in English, Japanese, French, German and other languages to call the attention of the international press.

"The PRI threatens many people and buys others with a couple of tacos," said Manuel Ocegueda, a 43-year-old shop worker at the rally.

Peña Nieto, a youthful 45-year-old married to a soap star, won last Sunday's election by 6.6 percentage points, according to the official count, bringing the PRI back to power after 12 years in opposition. The party had ruled Mexico for 71 consecutive years, with what critics say was the help of corruption, patronage and vote fraud.

PRI officials deny buying votes and say the elections were free and fair.

The final count had Peña Nieto with 38.21% support, leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Democratic Revolution party with 31.59%, and Josefina Vazquez Mota of the conservative National Action party with 25.41%. The small New Alliance Party got 2.29%.

The final count will be certified in September by the Federal Electoral Tribunal. The tribunal has declined to overturn previously contested elections, including a 2006 presidential vote that was far closer than last Sunday's.

In the weeks before the latest polls a student-led movement, Soy132, mobilised demonstrations and online protests against his links to the media giant Televisa, saying that both manipulate public opinion and state institutions in malign synergy.

A series of articles in the Guardian added to the controversy by publishing evidence that Televisa paved his path to the presidency by smearing rivals and disguising pro-Peña Nieto propaganda as news. Televisa has denied the allegations.

Accusations of vote-buying began surfacing in June, but sharpened later when people rushed to grocery stores on the outskirts of Mexico City to redeem pre-paid gift cards worth about 100 pesos (£4.50). Many said they got the cards from PRI supporters before the elections.

López Obrador said millions of voters had received either pre-paid cards, cash, groceries, construction materials or appliances.

Some demonstrators covered the heads of statues with plastic shopping bags from Soriana, the supermarket chain where the gift cards were redeemable. "We have to come out in the streets to denounce that the PRI bought votes, and there were people who sold them," said a 32-year-old psychologist, Raquel Ruiz.

Some protesters said overturning the election result would be difficult, while others thought there were judicial means to prevent Peña Nieto from assuming the presidency.

López Obrador said he would file a formal legal challenge to the vote count in electoral courts based on the allegation that PRI vote-buying influenced millions of votes.

Simply giving away such gifts is not illegal under Mexican electoral law, as long as the expense is reported to electoral authorities. Giving gifts to influence votes is a crime, though it is not generally viewed as grounds for overturning an election.

Leonardo Valdés, the president of the Federal Electoral Institute, said he did not see any grounds for overturning the results but that an investigation into the gift cards had been launched.

The PRI spokesman, Eduardo Sánchez, said last week the gift-card event had been "a theatrical representation" mounted by the left. He claimed supporters of López Obrador took hundreds of people to the shops, dressed them in PRI T-shirts, gave them gift cards, emptied shelves to create an appearance of panic buying, and brought TV cameras in to give the false impression that the PRI had given out the cards.

Cesar Yanez, the spokesman for López Obrador's campaign, denied the PRI accusations.

• This article was amended on 10 July 2012 to make clear the video is of protesters in the city of Guadalajara.

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you can type any Mexican city associated with Yo soy 132 and there you will find hundreds of videos showing the evidence of protests and PRI FRAUD evidence.

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Check it out on Utube. This will give you a pretty good idea of how crooked our government and media are. Kudos to Mexico. We only know what we are being told by this government and it is all lies. I am quite sure it will be coming to the US soon.

USA TODAY

Mexican protesters target television network

Updated 1h 39m ago

MEXICO CITY (AP) – Hundreds of protesters have set up a protest camp outside the offices of Mexican television network Televisa, saying the broadcaster favored winning presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto.

The protesters say they will stay on the streets surrounding the network's news division until the end of Friday.

The one-day blockade is organized by a student protest movement, union and leftist groups.

Pena Nieto is married to a Televisa sopa opera star. Protesters claim the network unfairly promoted Pena Nieto's image. The network denies those accusations.

Pena Nieto won the July 1 presidential elections by a 6.6-percent margin over leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Lopez Obrador claimed Pena Nieto bought votes, and says the election results should be overturned and an interim president be named until a new vote is held.

Mexican protesters target television network

ABC NEWS

Mexican Protesters Target Television Network

MEXICO CITY July 28, 2012 (AP)

Hundreds of protesters have set up a protest camp outside the offices of Mexican television network Televisa, saying the broadcaster favored winning presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto.

The protesters say they will stay on the streets surrounding the network's news division until the end of Friday.


AP Protestors gather outside the Mexican television network Televisa headquarters in Mexico City, Friday, July 27, 2012.

Hundreds of protesters have set up a protest camp outside the offices of the media company, saying the broadcaster favored winning presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto. The one-day blockade is organized by a student protest movement, union and leftist groups who say they will stay on the streets surrounding the network's news division until the end of Friday, claiming the network unfairly promoted Pena Nieto's image. The network denies those accusations. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

The one-day blockade is organized by a student protest movement, union and leftist groups.

Pena Nieto is married to a Televisa sopa opera star. Protesters claim the network unfairly promoted Pena Nieto's image. The network denies those accusations.

Pena Nieto won the July 1 presidential elections by a 6.6-percent margin over leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Lopez Obrador claimed Pena Nieto bought votes, and says the election results should be overturned and an interim president be named until a new vote is held.

Mexican Protesters Target Television Network - ABC News