Here we go again! A “Russia, Russia, Russia” campaign has now been kicked off against Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, her government and the Journalists’ Club of Mexico, led by a ludicrous Nov. 24 New York Times article headlined “Russian Disinformation Comes to Mexico, Seeking To Rupture U.S. Ties.” The same day, a package of seven articles smearing the leading association of independent journalists in Mexico, the Journalists’ Club of Mexico, as purportedly being part of “Putin’s Laundromat” was published on the websites of both U.S. Factchequeado and Mexico’s Animal Político.
The combination leaves no doubt that this “Russian agents everywhere” campaign is an additional flank in the destabilization operation underway against Mexico’s Sheinbaum government. Factchequeado and Animal Político—liberally funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and Soros’s Open Society Institute—play an active part in promoting the so-called “Generation Z” protest marches held across Mexico on Nov. 15. As EIR reported, the march was organized and directed from abroad by fascist financiers through their Atlas Foundation networks.
The New York Times cites two “investigations” as sources for its embarrassingly thin article: An internal American diplomatic cable from April 2024 titled “Mexico: RT’s Invasion” which the Times’s correspondent “reviewed”; and a “new investigation” into the Journalists’ Club prepared by Factchequeado and, according to the Times, the German Marshall Fund. The article includes such silly statements as that former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party “still governs Mexico and includes officials sympathetic to Russia, current and former American officials say,” and “British and French officials raised concerns with Mexico’s Foreign Ministry about Russia’s activities, according to three people familiar with the discussions.”
Singled out by name as alleged purveyors of Russian propaganda were the head of Mexico’s State Broadcasting System, Jenaro Villamil, and the Journalists’ Club, which the Times asserts has “built a partnership with RT.” They reserve particular venom for Journalists’ Club Secretary General Celeste Sáenz, who has denounced the attack as a brazen effort at intimidation.
