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CATEGORY: Mexico
Tyrant of the year 2022: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico
"He who has nothing to hide, has nothing to fear". These were the words uttered by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador in a February 2022 press conference held the day after Heber López Vásquez, founder and director of the digital...
Mexican journalists are still being failed
Mexico has long been a ruthless place for journalists and press freedom. According to the international human rights organisation Article 19, 156 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000. Of the total, 144 were men and 12 were women. In...
Contents – Index at 50: The battles won, lost and currently raging
The spring issue of Index magazine is special. We are celebrating 50 years of history and to such a milestone we've decided to look back at the thorny path that brought us here. Editors from our five decades of life have accepted our invitation to...
El silencio de los medios
Stephen Woodman informa desde la frontera con Texas, donde Twitter se ha convertido en la única fuente que los capos de la droga no han intervenido
Podcast: Border forces with Peppermint, Ariana Drehsler and Steven Borowiec
The autumn Index on Censorship magazine podcast with Peppermint, Ariana Drehsler and Steven Borowiec exploring how travel restrictions at borders are limiting the flow of free thought and ideas
Project Exile: Threatened in Mexico, facing deportation in the USA
Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez fled Mexico after soldiers sent him a warning. Now the USA wants to send him back.
After cartel kidnapping, Mexican journalist fled to U.S.
The men from the Sinaloa cartel had made a mistake, and now they were looking to use it to their advantage.
Duncan Tucker: Financial pressures are undermining Latin America’s media
Mounting financial pressures are robbing many of Latin America’s media outlets of their objectivity and forcing them to toe pro-government lines.
#IndexAwards2016: Méxicoleaks seeks to bring more transparency to Mexico
Méxicoleaks was launched in 2015 as a platform for people to anonymously share information leaks about anything in the public interest, including corruption, government spending and abuse