by jpitney | May 8, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Mexico
Reuters: A Mexican journalist was found dead in the northwestern state of Sinaloa on Thursday, authorities said, marking the ninth death of a media worker in an unprecedentedly bloody year for the country which has drawn international scrutiny. Luis Enrique Ramirez, a...
by jpitney | Mar 14, 2022 | California Politics, Deliberation, Democracy, Mexico
Nathan Gardels at Noema: Until 2000, the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) won every presidential election for some 70 years. This led the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa to mock Mexico as “the perfect dictatorship,” which perpetuated one-party rule through...
by jpitney | Sep 5, 2021 | Journalism, Mexico
James Fredrick at NPR: When Gildo Garza finally fled his home state of Tamaulipas in 2017 and arrived in Mexico City, he knew where to go first: the federal attorney general’s office. Even if the chances were slim, he had a sliver of hope investigators would...
