Censorship Law and Control of the Judiciary: Here Comes the Socialist Dictatorship

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."

The prohibition of "foreign propaganda"—the supposed purpose of the law—is a vile pretext. Because Sheinbaum doesn't seek to protect sovereignty, but to control the opposition. This law, along with the subjugation of the Judicial Power, is part of the recipe for a modern dictatorship: controlling justice and silencing the citizenry. We must point to the heart of the problem: the simultaneity of these reforms is no coincidence, but a plan orchestrated in the red basements of power.

The Judicial Power and censorship: the two faces of tyranny

The context of the "Censorship Law" is even more alarming when analyzed alongside the judicial reform approved in 2024, which subjected the Judicial Power to popular will through elections of ministers, magistrates, and judges. This change, driven by Morena, dismantled judicial independence, leaving citizens without an impartial arbiter against abuse of power. Now, with the ATDT as a censoring arm, the government has control of two essential pillars of democracy: justice and expression. This synchronicity is not fortuitous; it is the architecture of an authoritarian regime seeking to perpetuate itself.

The New Right, posed as vast movements resisting the advance of authoritarian pro-globalism and "soft" socialism, recognizes in these maneuvers an attack on the foundations of Western civilization: freedom and Truth. Freedom of expression is not a top-level, but the oxygen of a free society. Academically, I maintain that allowing the State to decide what is "propaganda" or "acceptable content" is synonymous with arbitrariness. In a country with a history of state repression—the Cristero War, 68, and even Ayotzinapa—trusting in the benevolence of the government is a dangerous illusion.

A dictatorial project with a progressive face

Sheinbaum, heir to López Obrador's socialism, has tried to soften the criticism by promising to "cool down" the law and review Article 109. However, this apparent concession should not deceive us. Because the government tactically retreats, but doesn't give up its goal: controlling freedom of expression.

There are two very serious points: One, the insistence on a mobile phone user registry, reminiscent of the unconstitutional National Mobile Phone User Registry (PANAUT)—which violated the human right to privacy—and which would possibly force citizens to provide biometric and personal data; and two, the power to revoke media concessions under the argument of a biased "public interest"—decided by Morena—and worse still, of "national security," automatically making every opponent a criminal, reinforce the suspicion of a totalitarian project disguised as digital sovereignty.

Contextualized in a global framework, this law makes Mexico join the wave of regimes that use technology to monitor and censor, like China with its Great Digital Wall. This is not sovereignty, it is slavery.

Resistance: a moral imperative

The "Censorship Law" is not a technical debate, but a battle for Mexico to keep its mouth unbridled. The simultaneous takeover of the Judicial Power and the threat to freedom of expression are symptoms of a dictatorship in formation, where power is concentrated in an Executive without limits. Our duty is to resist this advance with the strength of human rights, the Constitution, and citizen mobilization. The New Right defends foundational Christian values and at the same time proposes a vision of the future where these, along with freedom, justice, and true sovereignty—not the populist excuse—are the foundations of the nation.

Mexico doesn't deserve to be another failed experiment of Latin American socialism, clearly shepherded by China. We must be able to stop the "Censorship Law" and save Mexican democracy before it's too late.

Prayer and Action: Counterrevolution!