Press groups slam Mexican leader s lie of the week contest
July 2, 2021
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 8, 2021.Marco Ugarte/AP
MEXICO CITY (AP) Press and human rights organizations on Friday criticized Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s weekly ‘contest’ that roughly translates as ‘Lie of the Week.’
Each week at his daily morning press conference, López Obrador presents a few news articles he feels are unfair, an exercise he calls “Who’s Who in Lies.” It mirrors other segments like “Who s Who in the price of gasoline?” which is meant to embarrass stations that charge high prices.
Groups condemn Mexican president for targeting press
In a weekly Lie of the Week segment, Mexican President Lopez Obrador selects unflattering news articles he thinks are unfair and decries them as fake news. Various bodies have condemned his behavior.
Lopez Obrador s supporters have previously launched social media campaigns against the journalists he has criticized
The Inter American Press Association, a North America-based press advocacy group, along with the Inter American Human Rights Commission, said on Friday that they rejected a segment organized by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, aka AMLO, in his morning conference.
In the weekly segment, translated as Lie of the Week, Lopez Obrador presents a few critical or unflattering news articles which he thinks are unfair and fake news. In the segment, he also makes accusations against journalists, singling them out for their reporting.
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Colombia s national strike and protests, which began on April 28, continue to generate violence, destruction, and a panoply of human rights abuses. As of May 31, a network of Colombian civil society groups registered 71 homicides within the context of the protests. All but two of the dead are civilians.
While violence ebbed a bit during mid-May,
the pace of homicides has picked up alarmingly in the past 10 days. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights counted 14 killed in Cali alone between May 28-30.
Police brutality, disproportionate use of force by security forces, and unsettling videos showing civilians shooting weapons in the presence of the police continue to circulate. Cali -Colombia s third largest city with a high number of Afro-descendant residents -has suffered up to 46 homicides and a brazen, racist attack on an Indigenous Nasa caravan that entered the city in early May in
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OAS, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and Nicaraguan business condemned the outrage
21 mayo, 2021
The international community joined Nicaraguan organizations and prominent figures in expressing their repudiation of the May 20 police actions. Officers
raided and looted the recording studios belonging to Carlos F. Chamorro. A multitude of organizations expressed solidarity with the team involved in the internet television programs
Esta Semana and
Luis Almagro,
Confidencial workers. He demanded an end to the harassment. “Respect for freedom of expression, an essential element of democracy, drives our repudiation of this type of assault,” he wrote on Twitter.