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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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AMLO’s Hate-Hate Relationship with the Press
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 moreNavigating Mexico: Just How Free Is Mexico?
OPINION By JUAN DE JESÚS BREEN Once again the U.S.-based Cato Institute thinktank — for the seventh year in a row — has published its yearly Human Freedom Index, known to political science students as the HFI. The index measures 165 countries on 12 freedoms: rule of law, security and safety, movement, religion, civil society, expression, relationships, government size, legal
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Freedom of Expression in Mexico
Read moreMedia 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
Read moreWashington Post Says Mexico Is Spying on Journalists
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to deny that the Mexican government is spying on journalists and opposition leaders, a report published on Sunday, July 18, in the Washington Post would seem to contract his claims. The article — written by Dana Priest, Craig Timberg and Souad Mekhennet in cooperation with 16
Read moreAMLO’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,”
Read moreThe View from the North: A Farewell to Twitter
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. We all have new year’s resolutions, from weight loss to reading more books. In my case, I decided to get out of the Twitter world. My decision was based on all the crazy stuff I had been reading on Twitter and the obvious censorship of conservative opinions. Now Twitter has deleted U.S. President Donald Trump’s account.
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