Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (C) rides along the National Guard during a ceremony … [+] in Mexico City, Mexico. Getty Images In Mexico, the presidential palace has become the set of a televised drama. Every weekday morning, the star uses his pulpit to promote his agenda and lash out at his enemies. He fields questions from friendly reporters from little known media outlets and singles out irksome, independent journalists for condemnation. The last few months leading up to Mexico’s pivotal mid-term elections have been particularly challenging for Mexico’s controversial president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. In addition to confronting the reality that Mexico stands alongside Brazil and the U.S. as one of the countries most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, Lopez Obrador has had to deal with an unceasing cascade of smaller crises. In March, police officers in Quintana Roo detained, restrained and killed a woman in the street. Later a reporter who documented the incident had his house broken into. A reporter was killed in the state of Guanajuato in November, the tenth journalist killed in Mexico during Lopez Obrador’s administration. The Committee to Protect Journalists, a press freedom advocacy group, ranks Mexico as the most dangerous country for journalists in the western hemisphere. An environmental activist was killed in the state of Oaxaca on March 28, the fourth activist killed this year. In total, more than ninety environmental activists have been killed in Mexico since 2012. In April, a member of the president’s flagship National Guard militarized… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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