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‘State Of Silence’ Review: Vital Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal-Backed Film Documents Mortal Threat To Mexican Journalists
'State of Silence' review: vital Netflix doc from Diego Luna and Gael García sheds light on mortal danger facing Mexican journalists.
State of Silence shows closed circuit television footage of an incident in September 2017 in which Medina was approached by a man in a vehicle who told him, “You’re messing with the government, you son of a bitch. It’s a sad testimony that things have reached such a dire state in Mexico that the government adopted a law in 2012 establishing a formal “Mechanism of Protection” for journalists and defenders of human rights. Carmen Aristegui, the prominent Mexican journalist and news anchor whose fame may insulate her to some degree from risk, provides a coda to the film, addressing the stakes for a democratic nation where reporters routinely face mortal danger.
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