PRI presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto leads in polls ahead of the July 1 election, but he was heckled by young protesters during a recent appearance at a university.
EPN doesn't lead in polls, that's what the media wants us to think, the real leader is AMLO.
Students blamed him for a violent crackdown on protesters outside Mexico City in 2006. Later, some PRI members suggested the hecklers weren't really students, further enflaming passions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlqS1abNCkw
Students from the Universidad Iberoamericana (prestigious and private university in Mexico) shouting out "Out! Out!", "Ibero doesn't want you!", "Assassin", "Coward" at EPN.
In a move unusual for Mexico, the demonstrators did not carry banners for any of the other three candidates in the presidential race, instead shouting slogans against what they don't want, a return of the PRI, whose 71-year-rule was marked by repression, corruption and periodic economic crises.
Because this was a citizen's movement and to show displease with the PRI, EPN and Televisa.
Pena Nieto has said he leads a new and reformed PRI, in which a younger generation has learned from, and paid for, the mistakes of the past.
Nope. It's still the same, still committing murders, shutting up people, trying to control the masses. Still corrupted.
Her mother, Guadalupe Barrera, 57, said she remembers the PRI years as a time when "you couldn't speak out, if you were in the opposition."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV7DnjE18zo
You still can't, as you can see people in favor of the PRI attacking protesters and destroying banners in today's march.
While Pena Nieto, 45, is the youngest of the candidates but he has struggled to gain support among university students, in part because of some missteps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fT1zYAVsXg
He was asked in a large book fair which three books have marked his life. He couldn't answer, he struggled to come up with name and he mentioned the Bible as one of them, reading only a couple of passages, not the entire thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBFDNJ4JU6A
He was unable to answer correctly how much a kilogram of tortilla costs, how much a kilogram of meat costs, how much the minimum wage is and how much an average can of soda costs. Soda was the only one he answered right.
After the heckling incident earlier this month at posh private university, some of his supporters said the protesters weren't really students or had been manipulated by rival candidates. That led to about 130 of them to make a video posted on social media sites, in which they were seen holding up their student IDs and denying they had been manipulated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRDD-b0IHIs
At the start, someone is informing that there are not many protesters and that they were surely trained and payed to do the protest by candidate AMLO. The rest of the video are students from the Ibero showing their student ID, stating their name and ID number.
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