Mediaocracy in Mexico : manufacturing consent for state repression in San Salvador Atenco

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dc.contributor.advisorDe Uriarte, Mercedes Lynn
dc.contributor.advisorSpeed, Shannon, 1964-
dc.creatorKeating, Caroline Elise
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-22T14:38:53Z
dc.date.available2017-03-22T14:38:53Z
dc.date.issued2007-05
dc.description.abstractIn Mexico’s neoliberal era, development projects threaten to uproot the lives of mestizo and indigenous peasant farmers. Faced with displacement from their lands, farmers from Atenco in the Texcoco Valley of Central Mexico fought against the construction of a billion-dollar airport project in 2002 and won. To allegedly avenge the failure of the airport project, police initiated a raid in Atenco on May 3rd and 4th, 2006. Police broke into homes, arrested hundreds of farmers and their supporters, sexually tortured women detainees and killed two protestors. Meanwhile, the television media in Mexico reported events in ways to generate public consensus that favored the mobilization of police forces that led to abuses against the residents of Atenco. The same bias influenced U.S. news reports on Atenco. Not until the alternative press started to expose the abuses did the mainstream media move toward more balanced coverage and closer to the truth.en_US
dc.description.departmentLatin American Studiesen_US
dc.format.mediumelectronicen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2542JD8M
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/46143
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUT Electronic Theses and Dissertationsen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en_US
dc.rights.restrictionRestricteden_US
dc.subjectMexicoen_US
dc.subjectHuman rights abusesen_US
dc.subjectAtenco (Mexico)en_US
dc.subjectTelevision mediaen_US
dc.subjectUnited Statesen_US
dc.titleMediaocracy in Mexico : manufacturing consent for state repression in San Salvador Atencoen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
thesis.degree.departmentLatin American Studiesen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineLatin American Studiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at Austinen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen_US

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