Murdered Journalists and President López Obrador’s Fraught Relationship with the News Media in Mexico

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By mid-February of 2022, the number of murdered journalists in Mexico had already outstripped the pace set in 2021. At the same time, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s contentious relationship with journalists became seriously intensified by his brouhaha with Carlos Loret de Mola. The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) called on AMLO to suspend a series of verbal attacks that he had launched against Loret. Commentators worked through the implications.

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