Hundreds of youths, summoned through social networks by the movements #YoSoy132, #Yosoyred and Anonymous, and by bloggers and students arrested on December 1, protested yesterday at Televisa network facilities, amid a strong police presence.
Around 7:30 PM, the organizers read a manifesto, drawn up with the participation of citizens through social networks. It stated that the origin of the protest was due to the events of April 25, when a television reporter posed as a student at the rectory of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), covering his face with a scarf and wearing a simulated military-style jacket in order to do an interview parodying the youth who had seized the university facilities.
... The young people demonstrated peacefully, holding signs and waving the national flag. They warned that this grievance was not the only one against Televisa and TV Azteca [Mexico's second broadcast network].
"They use a public resource to manipulate, to impose laws and promote constitutional changes such the so-called structural reforms, including the recent amendment to the telecommunications law, the education reform and changes to Article 27 of the Constitution, which allows foreigners to buy land on the country's coastlines."Before reading out the manifesto, about 6:30 PM, there was an incident involving two dozen young people with hoods and anarchist flags, which incited the riot police. They threw a TV set, firecrackers and balloons filled with red paint at the police, plus kicking them with their feet.
Immediately, the organizers exclaimed: "No violence, no violence", and although there was an exchange of accusations between the youths, it didn't escalate.
After 8:00 PM, the protest in front of the television network continued peacefully, with music and slogans like: "We want schools, not soap operas" and "the Rose of Guadalupe [TV program] doesn't educate you" and "Televisa makes you an idiot".
The young people and citizens--about 450 according to police estimates--celebrated the event as "going out into the streets again to demand respect for free expression." Spanish original