Mexico’s president will shut down Notimex, the country's national news agency that has been in a years-long strike. Analysts call the closure President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's latest effort to control or quash independent government media.
López Obrador said the agency will be closed after an agreement is reached to pay the striking workers severance payments.
López Obrador routinely lashes out at mainstream reporters, calling them corrupt lackeys of conservatives. “The government is making a clearly partisan use of supposedly public media outlets that constitutes a flagrant violation of the Constitution,” the association said in a statement. “These are publicly funded electronic media that are meant to provide information without a slant in favor of the government.”Jorge Bravo, the association’s president, noted that Notimex, like some other public media, had long had a reputation for being pro-government.
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