ITT EXTRA: Mexico's Outrage Election
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This Sunday July 1, Mexicans will choose thousands of political positions, from mayors to the new president. Maria and Julio talk with Mexican journalist León Krauze about what to expect from the front-runner and if this election can really change the future of the country. Want to read more?
- Dissent magazine's profile on Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the front-runner.
- El Universal explains (in English) why voter turnout will be a key factor.
- The NY Times writes about Mexican disenchanted youth and the power they have in this election.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick, I'm Marianne No, Hossam. |
| 0:06.5 | And I'm Juho Guadaluirela and this is I.T. Extra. |
| 0:10.0 | All right, so... |
| 0:12.0 | But before we go to our main story, you know, we just have to, we have to because it just feels like everything is getting so close, this tragic shooting on Thursday at a local newspaper, The Capitol |
| 0:26.1 | Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, a real local newspaper. |
| 0:29.7 | Five of the paper staff were killed. |
| 0:32.3 | Rob Hyacinth, Wendy Winters, Gerald Fishman, John |
| 0:35.2 | MacDomerra, and Rebecca Smith. |
| 0:37.0 | Right, another example, horrific example of gun violence in our country, but now, it's targeted at the media, at journalists. |
| 0:45.9 | The alleged shooter, he had a history of legal conflict and he was violently threatening |
| 0:50.9 | the newspaper for years and in the context of this all right we have a |
| 0:54.4 | president that's yelling fake news saying that the media is the enemy of the people |
| 0:58.9 | and one of Trump's biggest supporters, Milo Yonopoulos, |
| 1:03.5 | saying just days ago that, and I'm quoting this, |
| 1:06.0 | he couldn't wait for the vigilante squads |
| 1:09.0 | to start gunning journalists down on site. |
| 1:12.2 | He defended that statement as a joke but come on Maria. |
| 1:14.8 | No no no I'm feeling very seriously. Yeah I mean I think that we should not be |
| 1:18.9 | surprised that another act of terrorism using guns occurred in our country and that it was directed at the media. |
| 1:27.0 | It just should not be a surprise when you have a president calling us the enemy of the people. |
| 1:32.0 | Next Tuesday, we're going to drop our live Aspen show. |
| 1:35.0 | We were at the Aspen Ideas Festival and we recorded a show live with a great audience, |
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