Okay, so just to tell you a bit about myself, I'm 28 years old.

I come from a small town in the south of England, just south of London,

and I've been living here for about seven years now.

I first came here in 2009 as an exchange student,

and I was here for a year, I went back to England for a year,

and then I ended up coming back here to work for a local newspaper

called the Guadalajara reporter.

It's a small English language newspaper for the Canadian and American expats who live in Lake Chapala just south of Guadalajara.

So I worked there for a couple of years and then I started freelancing first with Al Jazeera and the Independent in England, and since then

since then I've been working a bit with Vice and The Guardian and a few other outlets.

So I cover quite a broad mix of current affairs, crime, politics, human rights, some sport

business, even food stories, like a bit of everything

really. But today I'll be focusing mainly on Mexican politics, corruption, the war on

drugs and the media and what it's like to be a journalist here, and of course Donald

Trump. After it, if you have any questions about any of these topics

or anything else that I cover, then feel free to ask away. So when we talk about Mexican

politics, I think it's important to recognize that in many ways Mexico is only a very young

democracy. It had seven decades of one party rule up until the year 2000 so it's only really been a truly

democratic country since the turn of the century um so when uh vicente fox of the national

action party he was the first president to defeat the institutional revolutionary party in

2000 after they've been in power for 71 years.

So many people then thought that Mexico had made its final transition into democracy,

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