OPINION By KELIN DILLON Following a Twitter forum held over the weekend in defense of Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola’s work and freedom of the press rights, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) – the main target of Loret de Mola’s fact-based reports – has come against the journalist once more in a public forum, taking to his daily
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Jan. 27, the daily newspaper Infobae published an article noting that in 90 percent of the legal cases “investigated” by the Mexican government’s so-called Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists (MPPDDHP), no convictions are ever delivered. This figure came from the administration’s own Interior Secretariat (SeGob), which oversees the MPPDDHP office, following
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A Report on Freedom of the Press in Mexico
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Five former U.S. ambassadors offer advise on what to do next
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Mexican Government Talks Freedom of the Press
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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,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It seems that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has a bone to pick with the world’s leading global business publication. On Thursday, July 11, he “demanded” that the Financial Times of London — one of the most-respected and globally recognized print medias in the world – owed him – and oh, yeah, the Mexican people
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Kazakhstani Ambassador to Mexico Andrian Yelemessov has no great love for Human Right Watch (HRW), the New York-based NGO that has been defending refugees, migrants and political prisoners since 1978. “For me, that organization is bad,” Yelemessov told Pulse News Mexico during a press conference at his embassy on Wednesday, Feb. 20, to tout his government’s economic
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