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Missing Mexican Journalist Found Safe and Sound

By MARK LORENZANA Mexican journalist Jorge Luis Chew Cervantes posted on his official Facebook account that he is safe and sound, after being reported missing since Friday, Sept. 30, in the municipality of Taxco de Alarcón, in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. “Given the news of my disappearance, I want to inform my friends and followers who are worried about me

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AMLO Doubles Down after Twitter Forum Defends Loret de Mola

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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Loret 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

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CDMX Mayor Offers Solidarity, Protection to Threatened News Editor

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum vowed moral support and police security Saturday, Nov. 27, for El Universal newspaper editor Francisco Reséndiz, who was threatened with bodily harm earlier that day by two men who boxed in his car when he was driving. “We strive every day to make our city a space of freedom

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Opinion 51 Supports Dresser amid AMLO’s Accusations

By KELIN DILLON After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) targeted political analyst Denise Dresser on Wednesday, Sept. 15, during his “who’s who in lies of the week” segment, journalists from the women-run organization Opinion 51 rallied in support and defense of the Reforma newspaper columnist. Dresser caught the ire of the executive after she criticized López Obrador and

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Media Homicides up 31 Percent under AMLO

By KELIN DILLON In the first 32 months of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, 21 journalists have been assassinated in Mexico — up 31.2 percent from the comparable figure for the previous administration of former President Enrique Peña Nieto, which experienced 16 homicides in its first 32 months. According to British human rights organization Article 19, which

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Julio Hernández Makes Fool out of AMLO and the Mañaneras

By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) daily morning press conferences at the National Palace have turned into quite the spectacle of his “I’m right, you’re wrong” mentality, perfectly showcased via his weekly lambastment of the country’s most respected publications in the new “Who’s Who in Media Lies of the Week” segment, one journalist came prepared

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Presidential Adviser Says ‘Reporters Should Be Silenced’

By ADRIANA GARCIA VALDERRAMA On Wednesday, April 27, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) defended his government’s top judicial advisor  Julio Scherer Ibarra who one day earlier ruffled feathers by stating that reporters’ voices should be silenced. The declaration was taken as an invitation for censorship. Speaking during his daily morning press conference, AMLO called Scherer Ibarra “a good

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AMLO’s Press Conferences Filled with ‘Misinformation’ Says Nonprofit

By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) daily press conferences, known as mañaneras, are “a worrying instrument of misinformation,” said Article 19, an international human rights organization focused on freedom of information and expression. The group released its report “Distortion: The Speech Against Reality” on Tuesday, March 23, detailing AMLO’s “attempt to control and censure the Internet,”

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