From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. Bob Garfield is away, but WNYC's Marianne

McCune joins me this hour as we report this week from Mexico. What's happening here, now,

we'll have a resounding impact on both sides of our porous, problematic border.

Mexico is the U.S. third largest trading partner.

One in ten Americans is Mexican American.

And we're also tethered together by an inconclusive, bloody, seemingly endless drug war.

And the cynicism it breeds. Today, Mexico City's highways are crammed with campaign banners, its airways with political

chat, and its narrow streets with protesters, angry and eager.

It's been dubbed the Mexican Spring.

That analogy may be a little overwrought, but July 1st's presidential election marks a significant shift.

It's Mexico's third presidential election since the ruling pre-party was toppled after seven decades in power.

Twelve years later, as Mexico battles a rising crime and a bad economy, the Prix is poised to win again.

Students, tens of thousands of them, are filling the streets in protest.

Not just against the Priz candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto, they're even angrier at Mexico's TV monopoly.

It's skewed election coverage that seems to make his win inevitable.

Some protesters were mock TVs on their heads,

a satirical comment on the power of the Mexican TV monolith, Televisa.

Many of these marchers were mobilized by a notorious political blunder by the pre back in May,

when Peña Nieto showed up at a prominent university full of what he assumed would be complacent

middle-class kids and then was shockingly shouted down.

It's supposed to be a very controlled environment.

You know, rich people send their children there because there are no rebel rousers there.

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