Title: Censorship in Mexico - Wikipedia
Headings: Censorship in Mexico
Censorship in Mexico
Contents
Attacks and threats against journalists
Historical Censorship
Before 1569
The Holy Office of the Inquisition and Book Censorship 1569-1820
19th Century
Further reading
Notes and references
Bibliography

Content: It is the duty of the state to prevent and investigate such occurrences, to punish their perpetrators and to ensure that victims receive due compensation.” In a 2010 issue for the Committee to Protect Journalists, they describe the criminal justice system in Mexico as failing journalists from being unable to "successfully prosecute more than 90 percent of press-related crimes over the past decade." In a 2015 article in Foreign Affairs, Senior Partners in Control Risks Geert Abusers' (specializing in Brazil) and Nick Panes (specializing in Mexico City) claim that "local Mexican press is not free," bringing attention to more recent corruption scandals that are often made public through the international press. Historical Censorship
The history of censorship in Mexico can be traced back almost 500 years to the extension of inquisitorial practices from the Spanish Inquisition into Spain's New World territories in North, Central and South America. The Holy Office of the Inquisition established by decree of King Philip II in 1569 marked the first systematic attempt of the Spanish Crown to create a centralized censoring body in Mexico that subjugated New Spain to the codes of the Spanish Inquisition. Although the structure of censorship had already begun to take shape with the arrival of Spaniards to Central America 50 years earlier, the Holy Office's subsequent dominance would go on to characterize the state of Mexican censorship from the 1570s up until the beginning of the 19th century. After Mexico gained its independence from Spain and disbanded the Office of the Inquisition (formally in 1812 but effectively by 1820) the censorship methodologies that had long distinguished Mexican censorship began to change. Censorship practices that had long been under the control of the Catholic Church were now under the discretion of a newly independent government that was forced to frame its actions through secular and legal channels rather than religious orthodoxy. As a result, censorship in the 19th century occurred in many forms dissimilar to those that came before it and was dominated by the constant struggle between journalists and government officials as to what constituted free speech. Issues of a free press remained salient throughout the Mexican Revolution and the following post-revolutionary rise of communist expression in the arts and journalism.