12/10/2026
LAWN talk: Mexico's Watchdog Journalists: Reporting on Crime Syndicates and the Corrupt
Join the Latin America at Warwick Network for our first event of the year, featuring Professor Andrew Paxman of CIDE, Mexico City.
๐ Monday, 19 October
โฐ 2-3:30 pm
๐ S1.50, Social Sciences
Over the past two decades, Mexico has been the most dangerous country for journalists outside a war zone. The phenomenon broadly correlates to the spiralling homicide rate detonated by President Calderรณnโs 2006 declaration of โwarโ against the โdrug cartelsโ, but the reasons are more complex.
A growing body of research ascribes as much blame to agents of the state, from governors to local police. There is also a gubernatorial culture of violent repression and discursive nonchalance towards the press, which has roots in the late 19th century and persists with the aid of a parallel culture of impunity, recently bolstered by presidential hostility towards the press.
Andrew Paxman considers factors past and present behind the murder of Mexicoโs media workers.
