Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Thousands of Generation Z youths mobilized in recent days in Peru and Paraguay, organized through social media and without traditional hierarchies, to demand transparency, justice and an end to corruption.
The movement, which began in Nepal with the resignation of the prime minister after a wave of protests in September in which 72 people died, has spread from Asia to Latin America.
Gen Z -- people born between the late 1990s and 2010 -- is the first generation to grow up with the Internet.
Their organizing is decentralized and viral, often marked by the use of global cultural symbols such as the skull-and-crossbones flag from the 1997 Japanese animated series One Piece, which has become a worldwide emblem of the fight for dreams, the liberation of the oppressed and resistance to autocratic governments.
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