Belen Zapata: Is #YoSoy132 Still Important in Mexico's Agenda? Belen Zapata - CNN Mexico
go to original May 21, 2013

In order to show that their demonstration was genuine and truly carried out by students, a group of 131 young people recorded this video with their credentials in hand, which was later posted on YouTube. The video has more than 1.2 million views to this day. (R3CR3O)

According to analysts, a year after its birth, the demands of #YoSoy132 student movement against then presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto were taken up in recent legislative reforms.

The #Yosoy132 [#Iam132] movement, which started a year ago at a protest in Iberoamerican University (Ibero) against Enrique Peña Nieto, managed to find its way onto the national agenda and some of their demands have been included in recent reforms, analysts said to CNNMexico.

“If this movement had not started on May 11, Peña Nieta would have probably won the election with around 50% of votes and the PRI party would have acquired absolute majorities in both chambers of Congress. If this had happened, there would not be a need to create the Mexico Pact with the opposition," stated Agustín Basave, director of post graduate education at  Iberoamerican University.

The #Yosoy132 movement started as a group to support Ibero students, which protested on May 11 against the presidential PRI candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto. Basave argues that the Pact for México –an agreement signed between the government and the opposition to promote 95 reforms– is in some way a product of #Yosoy132.

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Translated by Mariana Silva

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