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The Real Perpetrator behind the Murders of Mexico’s Journalists
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Feb. 10, yet another Mexican journalist was murdered, the fifth so far this year, and the 50th since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office three years ago. Heber López, from the internet news site Noticias Web in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, was shot dead in broad daylight as he left his office Thursday
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 more2022: Let the Games Begin
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Freedom of Expression in Mexico
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Mexico’s Graveyard of Journalists
Read moreAMLO Orders Full Investigation into Murder of Tijuana Journalist
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Tuesday, Jan. 26, that he has ordered a full investigation into the murder of journalist Lourdes Maldonado of Tijuana’s Semanario del Séptimo Día, who was shot dead was on Sunday, Jan. 23, after allegedly receiving numerous death threats and winning a nine-year legal dispute against former
Read moreTijuana Journalist Killed after Suing Former Baja Governor
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just days after Mexican journalists Margarito Martínez Esquivel and José Luis Gamboa were killed on Jan. 17 and Jan. 10, respectively, yet another reporter, Lourdes Maldonado of Tijuana’s Semanario del Séptimo Día, was murdered on Sunday, Jan. 23, presumably for her legal disputes with former Baja California Governor Jaime Bonilla. Maldonado, who was shot
Read moreTwo More Mexican Journalists Killed in a Single Week
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two more Mexican journalists covering the country’s drug cartels and political corruption — photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel and reporter José Luis Gamboa — were killed in the space of just one week for doing their jobs, adding to a total of at least 145 murdered reporters in the country in the last two decades
Read moreHRW Head Warns US Not to Ignore AMLO’s Human Rights Abuse
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In an op-ed piece published in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday, Dec. 4, the Americas director of the New York-based nonprofit Human Rights Watch (HRW), José Miguel Vivanco, warned the United States to not be complacent about the mounting violations of basic human rights being compiled by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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