Reconstrucción periodística de nuevas formas de vida democr´tica (la "Marcha del Silencio", abril de 2005)/Journalistic Reconstruction of New Ways of Democratic Life (the "March of Silence", April 2005)

We analyze the main headlines and subheads on the front page of 15 Mexican newspapers published on 25th April of 2005, next day of the March of Silence, when nearly 1 200 000 demonstrators protested against the Mexico City local governor's Andrés Manuel López Obrador suppression of legal immunity. The analysis of the linguistic material of the headlines reveal if the press considered the march as the most relevant topic or if focused on a single protagonist. The results show that most of the press was not ready to give prominence to the democratic spirit of the march and chose instead to emphasize the electoral sense in this episode, which eventually became one of the first chapters of the controversial 2006 presidential elections.