FSNN | Free Speech News Network https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html US Soldier Charged for Alleged $400K Polymarket Insider Trading on Maduro Removal Homepage Review: Queer Eye Helped Promote LGBTQ Acceptance Without Yelling at People Review: Queer Eye Helped Promote LGBTQ Acceptance Without Yelling at People India pushes digital rupee through welfare pilots as BRICS CBDC plan takes shape US vows to fight ‘industrial scale’ AI theft by Chinese firms Trump’s Illegal Tariffs Are Finally Being Refunded. Will You Get Any of the Money? 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The country no longer occupies the number one spot (that goes to Gaza where 53 press members were killed in 2025), but it’s still an incredibly dangerous place to be a reporter. Between October 2024 and October 2025 10 journalists were killed. All of which impacts people’s willingness to go on the record. The journalists’ killings are part of a wider context of extreme violence in Mexico, laid bare two months ago when masked gunmen from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel went on a rampage to avenge the killing of their leader “El Mencho” by security forces. Yes, the Teotihuacán pyramids’ attack seems to have been carried out by a lone assailant with no apparent links to cartels. But violence begets violence – the backdrop counts. The current Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has condemned the attack on tourists and called for a thorough investigation. Will that happen in a meaningful way? The jury is out. Sheinbaum is not her predecessor when it comes to freedom of expression (Andrés Manuel López Obrador was actually crowned our Tyrant of the Year in 2022 due to his hostility to the media; Sheinbaum is slightly better here). Both leaders though have in different ways struggled to fully confront and discuss the country’s violence. Sheinbaum says the problem is getting better, citing declining murder rates. Others dispute this, pointing to things like the growing numbers of forced disappearances, which don’t count as murder. Obrador did the same. He proclaimed femicide figures had dropped under his leadership, except he narrowed the reporting period to the lowest point, ignoring the time when the numbers rose under him. Anyone who highlighted this was derided as an enemy of Mexico (as we reported in 2023). It’s easy to understand why both leaders would want to downplay the violence – it’s hardly a great look politically, nor does it position Mexico as a “top holiday destination”. 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