Mexico’s False Peace: How Government Spin Masks Rising Violence and Endangers America

As violence surges unchecked across Mexico, activists are sounding an urgent alarm against the government’s polished facade of peace. In San Cristóbal de las Casas, a coalition of over twenty organizations gathered to denounce what they call a “simulated peace” — a carefully crafted image imposed by authorities that masks the deepening crisis ravaging communities.Is Mexico’s Government Selling Illusions While Violence Spirals?Pedro Alfaro from the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center bluntly describes how President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration relies on slick marketing to present a false front of peace and justice. This strategy, he warns, is inherited from...