Mexico, amendments to the Telecommunications Law are being debated in the country

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*Amendments to the Telecommunications Law have generated controversy *Changes to the law mean private media licensees will be responsible for their content *President Sheinbaum stressed that the dissemination of foreign propaganda will not be allowed *Changes to the law seek to prevent the media from disseminating hostile campaigns *Reform will maintain state control over the country's radio electric spectrum

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00:00After the United States paid Mexican media to disseminate a hostile and aggressive anti-immigrant campaign,

00:07academics and specialists agreed on the importance of the recently approved reform to the telecommunications law

00:13to maintain the sovereignty of the Mexican government.

00:16Antonio Aranda with the details.

00:21Amendments to the telecommunications law are being debated in Mexico to generate regulations that will allow the Mexican government

00:28to maintain national sovereignty and prevent foreign governments from broadcasting propaganda in national media.

00:38When we have a message from a foreign government, which is frankly interventionist in the internal affairs of the country, or as in this case,

00:50which raises a message that has a clear discriminatory content,

00:54we want the state to have certain tools, perhaps techniques,

00:57to safeguard certain national interests regardless of which party is in power.

01:08The amendments to the telecommunications law have generated controversy

01:11by including the possibility of temporarily blocking a digital platform.

01:15However, this should not be considered censorship, according to this specialist.

01:18When Donald Trump's spots appeared on private national television,

01:27the spots appeared, the proposal to make these changes appeared,

01:30and it is evidently because we are in an ideological war.

01:34The opposition, the enemies of the fourth transformation,

01:36the enemies of the system link it to a process of censorship.

01:39But of course there is no process of censorship.

01:41The changes to the telecommunications law will help to make private media licensees responsible

01:54for the broadcasting of their content.

01:56There is the issue of the spots that come from other parts of the world,

02:05but on the other hand it is urgent that we make the private and public media responsible

02:08for what they say for what they do.

02:10It is urgent something similar to order because we are not having it,

02:14and that is why the changes in the law are not only for the issue of spots from other entities.

02:26President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the withdrawal of Article 109 of the initiative

02:30to avoid controversy on the issue of censorship,

02:33but stressed that the dissemination of foreign propaganda will not be allowed.

02:38This article that generated confusion is completely eliminated,

02:43and it is also stated that no foreign government can make political or ideological propaganda

02:48in Mexico paid as commercial as paid propaganda.

02:54The changes to the law seek to prevent the public and private media

03:00from disseminating campaigns such as the one led by Kristi Noem.

03:03The United States Secretary of Security, who in a criminalizing tone warns migrants

03:08that crossing illegally into the United States will have serious consequences.

03:12You are considering entering America illegally?

03:15Don't even think about it.

03:16Let me be clear.

03:18If you come to our country and you break our laws, we will hunt you down.

03:21President Sheinbaum has stated that the changes to the telecommunications law

03:29will allow maintaining the state's control over the radio-electric spectrum,

03:32which is the property of the nation.

03:33Antonio Aranda Telesur, Ciudad de México.

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