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| We begin with a spokesperson for the Yo Soy 132 student movement that began as a reaction to the promotion of the PRI candidate Pena Nieto by Mexico’s media monopolies. Paula Santoyo, who MC’d last night’s massive silent protest in the Zocolo joins us. |
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Then we speak with Dr Andre Dorce Ramos, who is a lecturer at the Communications Sciences Department in Universidad Autonomo Metropolitana in Mexico, and is the obmudsman with Public Broadcasting Channel 22. We discuss the flagrant political bias of Mexico’s media monopolies and how much the alternative media used by Yo Soy 132 is penetrating the political landscape. |
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| Then George Grayson the author of “The Executioner’s Men: Los Zetas, Rogue Soldiers, Criminal Entrepreneurs, and the Shadow State They Have Created” joins us to discuss the impact of the bloody and brutal war on drugs on Mexico’s election. |
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| Then finally Anne-Marie O’Conner joins us. She writes for The Washington Post from Mexico City and we discuss the unlikely possibility of an upset victory by the PRD candidate Lopez Obrador who she recently profiled in The Washington Post. |
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| MUSIC: Molotov - Gimme The Power; Manu Chau - Politik Kills; Natalia Lafourcade - Un Dereche De Nacimiento; Mexican Institute of Sound - Mexico |
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