Nevertheless, she is not expecting an easy ride. So no direct censorship cases against journalists.”
“ has promised that, under his government, this won’t happen, such as happened with me and.
“The challenge of the new government in Mexico is basically that the old government was critical of the media in the country,” she said. So I decided to transform this energy into a creative energy-to find my tools as a filmmaker and go to Mexico and look for her.”Īristegui doesn’t reveal much of herself in the film, which observes her from a respectful yet still intimate distance, but after the screening she had plenty to say on the subject of censorship in Mexico, even under the rule of recently elected reformist Andrés Manuel López Obrador. I was lost for words-and I lost the words twice, because Carmen’s voice was the bridge between me and Mexico.
#Radio silence film series#
We were starting to learn about this series of very violent events, like the disappearance of the 43 Iguala students… It was really shocking. I was premiering my first feature, and suddenly that voice went silent. “As the film says,” Fanjul recalled, “ started when the program I used to listen to ended suddenly in March 2015. Xie said: “Boycotting the Olympics for political reasons harms the interests of athletes, violates the common ideals and pursuits of the international community, and is unpopular.Interviewed by IDFA programmer Maria Campaña Ramia, the Mexican-born Fanjul explained that she now lives in Switzerland, but used to keep up with her homeland by listening to Aristegui’s broadcasts-until, as the film shows, the reporter was fired by her employers and blacklisted by the industry for blowing the whistle on a corruption scandal involving then-President Enrique Peña Nieto. Biden has confirmed the White House is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Games over China’s human rights abuses. The meeting came as China seeks to head off growing calls for boycotts of the February Winter Olympics. However, Xie told the Americans these issues were all areas where China “has no room for compromise”. Beijing has also been sanctioned over its intervention in Hong Kong and crackdown in Tibet, and criticised for its aggression towards Taiwan. Several world governments and human rights groups have declared the systematic oppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang to be a genocide, or crimes against humanity. The US is among several countries in recent years to issue sanctions against the Chinese government, officials and entities in response to human rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang and other minorities, the crackdown on Hong Kong and its growing regional aggression.īeijing has rejected claims it is abusing human rights. “We hope that our friends in the business community will clearly oppose the politicisation of economic and trade issues and the abuse of the concept of national security, push the Biden administration to lift the tariffs imposed on China, stop the suppression and sanctions against Chinese enterprises and provide a level playing field for enterprises of both countries.” “Conversely, if the relations between the two countries deteriorate, the business community cannot ‘make a fortune in silence’. “It’s good to enjoy the shade under the big tree,” he said. Xie praised the recent meeting between the US president, Joe Biden, and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in seeking to restore the relationship, and said that when bilateral relations were good, economic and trade cooperation was smoother. The meeting’s warning added to letters sent by China’s embassy in Washington directly to US businesses last month, making similar threats and urging them to lobby against US bills that would affect Chinese interests. In his address, published by the ministry of foreign affairs, Xie urged the US business representatives to “speak up and speak out, and push the US government to pursue a rational and pragmatic policy towards China, stop conducting wars in trade, industry and technology, and stop creating … ideological and geopolitical confrontations and conflicts”.