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Mas de 131

Mas de 131 (Translates to More than 131) is a mexican independent media outlet. It has its origin in the #YoSoy132 student assembly at The Ibero-american University. Its name comes from the youtube video “131 students respond” that almost immediately became a trending topic on twitter. This video was uploaded in response to Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, Arturo Escobar and Emilio Gamboa’s comments on the events that took place May, 11th 2012 at the same university.

On that day, hundreds of students protested against (PRI in Spanish) presidential candidate,. The students claims ranged from the events that took place in San Salvador Atenco in 2006 while he was governor of the State of Mexico to his relationship with controversial political figures like ex-president Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

Various media outlets and politicians accused the protesters of being false students paid for by political enemies. As a response, they made the video in which they denied these accusations and presented their student id’s to prove they were real students. 132 Debate

Members of the Yo Soy 132 (Translates to I am 132) political movement belonging to different universities organized the first citizen debate that was attended by three of the four presidential candidates (Josefina Vázquez Mota, & ) Enrique Peña Nieto declined to attend just hours before the event. The debate took place June 19th, 2012 in the Digna Ochoa room of the Mexico City Commission for Human Rights. The questions that made up the body of the debate were sent by internet through Google Moderator. The selection of questions was random and decided by a draw in the presence of a notary public. The debate was streamed live and reached a million views; this situation even caused network overload problems. The model was adopted in Zacatecas for the debate between candidates running for the office of mayor in that state’s capital.

Independent Media Outlet

After the 2012 elections the nodes that made up the Yo Soy 132 movement slowly disappeared, but different groups remained active, cooperating in various projects. Mas de 131, the assembly from Universidad Iberoamericana evolved into a collective. The collective includes Mas de 131 in other universities like ITESO in Guadalajara and Iberoamericana in Puebla. Among the activities the collective carries out is the creation of informative audiovisual material from a human rights perspective. That was how the collective got involved in the case of Alberto Patishtán Gómez a tztotizil professor that was a political prisoner for 13 years. He was arrested for his role in the resistance movement of the population of Lerma (State of Mexico) against the construction of the Toluca-Naucalpan highway on a natural reserve that stands in Otomi land. Under the demand for the democratization and transformation of the media, on May, 2014 (the second anniversary of Mas de 131) the collective launches it’s independent media outlet and webpage (www.Masde131.com). At the end of that same year, Mas de 131 was selected by Free Press Unlimited to participate in the Mexicoleaks team, that began it’s activities on march 2015