Ballots, Bots, and Bullets - The Complex Landscape of Mexico’s 2024 Election

It has been roughly two decades since the ‘centrist’ Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidency after holding power for over seventy years. During this recent democratic era, Mexico has experienced several rounds of alternating political control at the national and subnational levels. While there are plenty of topics and issues that have circumscribed Mexico’s current electoral contest, in this collaborative piece we focus on two critical aspects of the ongoing bout: i) Mexico’s media environment throughout the campaign, and ii) the dramatic levels of violence which has tainted the process. In drawing readers’ attention to these issues, we argue that media platforms and information technologies have played a crucial role in shaping political engagement and in addressing the gruesome challenges of observing political-criminal violence towards public authorities and candidates across the country.

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