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Since the 2000 elections toppled the PRI, over 150 Mexican journalists have been murdered. Failed assassinations and threats have silenced thousands more. Such high levels of violence and corruption question one of the fundamental assumptions of modern societies, that democracy and press freedom are inextricably intertwined. In this collection historians, media experts, political scientists, cartoonists, and journalists reconsider censorship, state-press relations, news coverage, and readership to retell the history of Mexico's press.

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We journalists are not in the business of staying silent. For us, silence is not an option. But for those who abuse their power, censorship has always been a tool at their disposal. Well, this indispensable book shows us that, at the end, every story will be told (even the story of censorship). --Jorge Ramos, author of A Country for All: An Immigrant Manifesto

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Paul Gillingham is an associate professor of Latin American history at Northwestern University. He is the author of Cuauhtémoc's Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico (UNM Press). Michael Lettieri is a senior research fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Benjamin T. Smith is a reader in Latin American history at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Pistoleros and Popular Movements: The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca.

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