#YaMeCanse Unites Latin America's Internet Users Claudia Herrera Beltran - La Jornada
go to original October 26, 2015

Why we say #YaMeCanse (Ya Me Cansé)

What unites Ecuadorian ecologists, the Argentinian Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Bolivian soccer players and groups of Venezuelans and Uruguayans in cyberspace? The tragedy that took place in Ayotzinapa a year ago has managed it.

A study about the outrage and activism expressed on Twitter shows that this case became an unusual point of convergence for movements in Latin America and various generations and causes in Mexico.

Bernardo Gutiérrez, a Madrid-born writer, reporter and scholar on techno-politics is developing research for Oxfam, where he is analyzing this Latin American phenomenon and dedicating a chapter to our country. For it, he is assessing 1.3 million Tweets and observing the nodes that spread this demand for justice with the hashtag #YaMeCansé [#Enough, I'm tired] as a motto.

"Enough, I’m tired" says Murillo Karam #yamecanse (2012mx)

He traveled from Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he lives, to Mexico both to present the findings of the study "New Dynamics of Communication, Organization and Action in Latin America: Techno-Political Reconfigurations", and to get to know directly what he has seen on the networks about the struggle to uncover the truth about what happened to the 43 student teachers who disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, in September 2014. In an interview, Gutiérrez stated:

"I don't know if we can speak about a Pan-American movement, but the regional cause is indeed more powerful in recent decades, as it has united students, feminists, popular and indigenous movements in Latin America."

Read the rest at Mexico Voices

Translated by Tristan Foy

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