In an interview with Carmen Aristegui on the First Edition program of MVS News--after maintaining a blockade outside the radio station since the early hours of this morning--Carlos Esteban Jimenez, leader of the organization, said that in different media, such as La Razón, Milenio, Televisa and Proyecto 40, there is a "campaign of criminalization" against youth.
"(The government) is attempting to intimidate the forms of struggle of the people ... to demonstrate is not a crime, to repress certainly is," he said and noted that they [government, press] described them as "vandals".Jimenez said that the basic problem is not broken glass or a painted wall, which the journalist Carmen Aristegui questioned as to whether that helps or contributes to a solution.
Vidal Rojas, another member of the Front, said the media and politicians "want to lynch us," because now they have supported the teachers' movement in Guerrero, which proposes an education counter-reform.
Uriel Sandoval, the UACM [Autonomous University of Mexico City] student who lost an eye in the protest against Enrique Peña Nieto on December 1, said that they are fighting "the closed mindedness of institutions". Regarding what happened at the inauguration of President Peña Nieto, he said that it was positive that the Government of the Federal District has accept the recommendations of the CDHDF [Human Rights Commission of the Federal District], but said the "supposedly leftist government" has a security protocol that criminalizes protest.
Meanwhile, also on the program, UNAM academic, Lorenzo Meyer, and Sergio Aguayo, of the College of Mexico, discussed the youth protest occurring outside MVS studios.
Aguayo said
"anti-social Mexico is exploding on all sides, rejecting institutional channels because these do not provide solutions to their immediate and profound needs."He added that we are experiencing a "a terrible crisis of representation" because Mexican democracy is not working in some aspects.
Meanwhile, Lorenzo Meyer said that in Mexico
"we are trapped in a crisis of representation", because the political class does not listen, so it created a country that is "very unjust. Our representatives represent very little."Spanish original