| A guide to news sources, newspapers and blogs of Catemaco and Los Tuxtlas in Veracruz, México, |
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| Catemaco, Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico lacks a daily or weekly periodico (newspaper), a radio station and a TV station. Television is a more or less monopolistic event provided through 2 channels piped from Mexico City. Cable TV is available in Catemaco, including the CNN international news feed, and usually 4-6 channels showing English speaking re-runs and Spanish sub-titled movies. The Veracruz government also operates both an intermittent cable TV and full time Radio station. Radio is a little less restrictive. An "independent" radio station, FM 92.7, beams from San Andres Tuxtla, and covers the Catemaco area, and the Veracruz State radio channel Radio MAS is a wonderful listening channel, if reachable on your hill or in your valley. Daily newspapers issue from San Andres Tuxtla and include Los Tuxtlas Diario and Eypantla Milenio. In addition, several weekly, but not online, publications also provide mostly political news. The best is possibly Palestra which does have some non political depth and one of whose columnists in online. Others are Renovacion, Eco de Los Tuxtlas, Perfil Tuxtleco and Politica en Los Tuxtlas. Many are extraordinarily hateful, spiteful and slanderous rags without an ounce of investigative fact checking. In Catemaco itself, noticias (news) is usually delivered by an old car cruising the streets, and blaring through loudspeakers, anything that anyone paid to announce, including deaths, events, sales, current crimes or incitations to public protests. At times a single page flyer available for 5 pesos accompanies the announcements. Veracruz, like any area of Mexico, is a hotbed of political expression. And those political rages and glorifications are printed as news because usually that news is paid for by the person, political party, government or organization that wants news coverage. It is a strange arrangement but apparently satisfies the readers. Maybe some of the local publications are independent, but I don´t know. All of them, nevertheless cover most major events, unless of course, their favorite was negatively involved. And all of them are essentially "negative" on anything relating to Mexico originating north of the Mexican border. |
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