In a Mexico that has technically entered a recession, that has lost its sovereignty in vast territories to narco-terrorism, with the destroyer ship USS Gravely—specialized in combating organized crime—stationed in the port of Veracruz, and the arrival of the United States Ambassador, Ron Johnson, imminent, Doña Presidente thought it was a good time to launch a law useful for tying freedom of expression like a dog, and to return to those Stalinist times when the Secretariat of the Interior reviewed, authorized, or censored all types of information, opinion, and concessions.
Every socialist dictatorship worth its salt must attempt to control absolutely everything, and to this end, the dissolution of the division of powers contributes greatly, and subjecting all media, and now also the powerful social networks, which it even seeks to block... This smells of Mao, cultural revolution, and CPC.
What else can come from the mind of a person whose social context was steeped in flowery dreams of Fideles Castros and whose recreation has consisted of singing leftist Latin American ballads? We are talking about a hyper-ideologized person, who today works in the National Palace. No news, my captain.
If we listen to Lilly Téllez, Sheinbaum's hypersensitivity to the criticism she receives would have been the trigger to pull the telecommunications and broadcasting law proposal, known as the "Censorship Law," out of her sleeve. I don't agree that this is the cause, but rather a dictatorial project (the dictatorship of the "proletariat," which is more like the 4T).
But what I do agree with my brave friend, archer, and senator is that the Censorship Law is a blow to the freedom of Mexicans to access information. Sheinbaum's government would decide what Mexicans will see and through which media and platforms. Translation: this is unacceptable.
This law simply emerges not as a dark omen of authoritarianism, but as the confirmation of the red path that Claudia and her team of power-hungry progressives and socialists want to take us down. This initiative, sent to the Senate a few days ago, not only threatens to chain freedom of expression but, along with the imminent capture of the Judicial Power by the ruling party, reveals a deliberate project of dictatorial consolidation.
From a conservative and New Right perspective—which defends freedom, national sovereignty, and religious Truth against progressive relativism—Claudia's launch is a cunning plan that only discredits her government. Jorge Romero, national leader of the PAN, says that although in the end, they are changing some words in the law, the damage is already done because the government showed its claws and revealed its priority: controlling platforms, not defending rights.
And this distances us—Romero points out—from a contemporary democracy and "brings us closer to authoritarian models like Venezuela or China." Especially to China, I would emphasize. Let's remember that in Mexico, a proxy war is being played out, on the front of rare earths, commercial, economic, technological development, and where the cartels that move fentanyl—and everyone who prefers to give them "hugs" and not stop them—have already aligned with the Red Dragon, making them co-responsible for the death of 250,000 Americans a year from this substance.
Article 109: a dagger against freedom
The poisonous core of the "Censorship Law" lies in its Article 109, which empowers the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency (ATDT)—an entity subordinate to the Executive—to block digital platforms for vaguely defined non-compliance. The mere idea of "blocking" a platform seems incompatible with a democratic mind. This ambiguous wording, lacking judicial checks and balances, grants the government discretionary power to silence dissenting voices on social networks, the last bastion of freedom of expression in a country where traditional media have been co-opted or intimidated. In other words, controlling content on the internet is a way to degrade Mexico and its dehydrated democracy into a Cuba, Venezuela, or China, where telling the truth can be a crime and land you in jail.
The changes of the ATDT, which assumes functions of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) and the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece), are not a simple bureaucratic adjustment. It is a step toward the hyper-centralization of power, where the Executive, without accountability, decides what content is "allowed."
