Under fire from organised crime and from the government, reporters working in Mexico have been subject to nearly 700 attacks in the past calendar year. We speak to the journalists for whom these stats are a daily reality
The attack on the Supreme Court is just one way in which due process and dissent are coming under fire
The ability to express and discuss ideas openly is being curtailed in univerisites, new data published by the Academic Freedom Index reveals
Attacks on free expression in the country are the worst since the dictatorship ended in 1985, writes a journalist from Brazil
A major new global ranking index tracking the state of free expression is published today
You voted in your thousands and there was a clear winner, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Happy New Year! I think we can all agree, regardless of where we live, that 2022 was a tumultuous year. There was seemingly a new crisis every...
There are those within the Index family, including some of our founders, who consider free speech to be an absolute right, says Ruth Anderson
Choose from our shortlist of 12 despots and vote on who you think has done most to crack down on freedom of expression this year
There is nothing more disappointing (or predictable) than a revolutionary hero turned tyrant. In the great tradition of Lenin and Castro, Ortega...