The President as Thug
AMLO has indeed stepped over the line that differentiates the slinging of mere insults from instigating potential violence
Read moreTag Archives: Committee to Protect Journalists
Latin America Deadliest Area for Journalists in 2022, Mexico Leads Region
PULSE NEWS MEXICO According to a report released by international watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday, Jan. 24, Latin America was the deadliest region for reporters in 2022, with Mexico coming in as the worst for press killings in the territory and second-worst internationally. And while journalist killings in 2022 rose by nearly 50 globally amid lawlessness and war,
Read moreLoret de Mola Goes after AMLO in Washington Post Editorial
By KELIN DILLON In an opinion piece published in the Washington Post on Sunday, Feb. 6, Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola A. – a perennial target of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) public denouncements of Mexico’s modern media – detailed the regular attacks López Obrador has taken against the country’s journalists for reporting facts, calling journalism AMLO’s
Read moreThe AMLO Administration’s Slow Affisciation of the Truth
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just 24 hours after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) decried a report in Reforma noting that 56 human rights activists had been killed so far during his presidency as “false” and “a political conspiracy aimed at discrediting his administration,” the government’s own Secretariat of the Interior (Gobernación, or Segob) pointed out that the newspaper’s figures
Read more650 Intellectuals Implore AMLO to Respect Press Freedom
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS More than 650 Mexican journalists, filmmakers, writers, lawyers and other intellectual thinkers signed an open letter to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, Sept. 17, imploring him to respect freedom of the press. “President López Obrador uses his constant public discourse to stigmatize and defame those he deems to be his adversaries,” read the letter,
Read more