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In recent decades, Mexico has been one of the most dangerous democracies for journalists. Their coverage of the war on drugs, abuses of power, and human rights violations has led to harassment, threats, and violence by powerful cartels and corrupt officials. This book provides a ground-level view of how Mexican journalists have navigated this perilous environment, offering insight into how they protect themselves while reporting on the most critical and sensitive subjects. Based on in-depth interviews with reporters, editors, activists, and officials, Mexico’s Resilient Journalists examines the strategies that media workers have employed in pursuit of both personal safety and the public in...
This book explores the current human rights crisis created by the War on Drugs in Mexico. It focuses on three vulnerable communities that have felt the impacts of this war firsthand: undocumented Central American migrants in transit to the United States, journalists who report on violence in highly dangerous regions, and the mourning relatives of victims of severe crimes, who take collective action by participating in human rights investigations and searching for their missing loved ones. Analyzing contemporary novels, journalistic chronicles, testimonial works, and documentaries, the book reveals the political potential of these communities’ vulnerability and victimization portrayed in these fictional and non-fictional representations. Violence against migrants, journalists, and activists reveals an array of human rights violations affecting the right to safe transit across borders, freedom of expression, the right to information, and the right to truth and justice.
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Katharina Wagner analysiert umfassend die demokratische Qualität Mexikos und deren Entwicklung im Zeitverlauf. Durch den Vergleich der Präsidentschaften von Fox, Calderón und Peña Nieto untersucht sie, wie sich die demokratische Qualität Mexikos seit der Transition zur Demokratie im Jahr 2000 verändert hat und in welchen Bereichen demokratische Defekte zu verorten sind. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt hierbei auf den Auswirkungen des Drogenkrieges und des Gewaltkontextes. Die Autorin setzt sowohl auf nationaler als auch auf subnationaler Ebene (Chiapas, Chihuahua und Michoacán) an und ermöglicht hierdurch eine umfassende und valide Profilzeichnung der Demokratie. Die Demokratiemessung erfolgt anhand einer auf den spezifischen Kontext Mexikos angepassten 15-Felder-Matrix der Demokratie.