{"id":6999,"date":"2015-03-31T07:02:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6999"},"modified":"2015-03-31T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:04:00","slug":"6999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6999","title":{"rendered":"MEXICO\u2019S JOURNALISTS GRAB A TECH SHIELD AS THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT ESCALATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/03\/30\/mexicos-journalists-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\">MEXICO\u2019S JOURNALISTS GRAB A TECH SHIELD AS THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT ESCALATES<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Mexico, a country where tens of thousands have been killed in drug-related violence, and where government officials have been\u00a0complicit in corruption, murders, and disappearances, seems like a natural place to launch a safe, anonymous way for sources to get information to journalists.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the idea behind\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mexicoleaks.mx\/\">M\u00e9xicoLeaks<\/a>, a platform launched this month by a consortium of news outlets and advocacy groups in Mexico. The site allows whistleblowers to anonymously submit information via the Tor browser, which masks their location.<\/p>\n<p>But M\u00e9xicoLeaks has already caused a scandal, culminating in\u00a0the firing of one of Mexico\u2019s most popular journalists, radio personality Carmen Aristegui, and her staff of reporters. Although M\u00e9xicoLeaks\u00a0promises a secure channel for\u00a0activists who otherwise face brutal retribution for speaking out, its launch comes at a time when other protections for journalists, including their job security and physical safety, are crumbling.<\/p>\n<p>Aristegui and her\u00a0reporters say\u00a0that\u00a0the radio network that runs their show used\u00a0their involvement with M\u00e9xicoLeaks\u00a0as a pretext to fire them. The real goal, they believe, was to suppress oppositional journalism.\u00a0\u201cThey seemed\u00a0so determined to strike\u00a0us down,\u201d Irving Huerta, a 27-year-old investigative journalist with Aristegui\u2019s unit, told\u00a0<em>The Intercept<\/em>\u00a0in an interview.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Staffers on Aristegui\u2019s program had previously clashed with the network over\u00a0expos\u00e9s\u00a0on the First Lady of Mexico\u2019s real estate dealings, among other critical reports, Huerta says, and he believes\u00a0powerful people wanted to see the show end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO\u2019S JOURNALISTS GRAB A TECH SHIELD AS THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT ESCALATES Mexico, a country where tens of thousands have been killed in drug-related violence, and where government officials have been\u00a0complicit in corruption, murders, and disappearances, seems like a natural place to launch a safe, anonymous way for sources to get information to journalists. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4542,1769,4543,4544,462,517,4541,570,876],"class_list":["post-6999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-carmen-aristegui","tag-corruption","tag-intercept","tag-irving-huerta","tag-journalism","tag-mexico","tag-mexicoleaks","tag-news","tag-whistleblower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7002,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999\/revisions\/7002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}