Censorship and control of information: Strategies of populist regimes in Latin America

The municipal president of Tehuacán, Alejandro Barroso Chávez, is in the eye of the hurricane so many consider it an act of censorship: According to an office signed by its communication coordinator, José Bautista Pimentel, the members of the Cabildo will only be able to give statements or interviews if approved previously by the Coordination of Social Communication. This measure has raised alerts about the intention of the municipal president t…

#VenaCava The 5th. Power and the paradox of censorship I will tell an anecdote that I lived in 2011, being a political analyst. In the State of Veracruz, a user in the then social network Twitter, claimed to witness a terrifying act: to see a helicopter fly over a primary school and from there drop shots [...] The post #VenaCava: The 5th. Power and paradox of censorship appeared first on Quintana Roo Today.

The Popularist regimes’ favorite weapon to control information and narrative when exercising freedom of expression. Media gag: This is how populism silences criticism History repeats itself: populist regimes in Latin America are resorting to censorship tactics alarmingly similar to those used by past dictatorships. In so-called “Bolivarian nation,” the dictator Nicolás Maduro’s government has implemented drastic measures against social networks …