News from Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz
Catemaco, Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico lacks a daily or weekly periodico (newspaper), a radio station
and a TV station.
Television is a more or less monopolistic event provided through 2 channels piped from Mexico City.
Cable TV is available in Catemaco, including the CNN international news feed, and usually 4-6 channels
showing English speaking re-runs and Spanish sub-titled movies. The Veracruz government also operates
both an intermittent cable TV and full time Radio station.
Radio is a little less restrictive. An "independent" radio station, FM 92.7, beams from San Andres Tuxtla, and
covers the Catemaco area, and the Veracruz State radio channel Radio MAS is a wonderful listening
channel, if reachable on your hill or in your valley.
Daily newspapers issue from San Andrés Tuxtla and include Diario Los Tuxtlas and Eypantla Milenio. In
addition, several weekly, some online, publications also provide mostly political news. The best is possibly
Palestra which does have some non political depth and one of whose columnists in online. Others are
Renovacion, Perfil Tuxtleco and Politica en Los Tuxtlas. Many are extraordinarily hateful and slanderous
rags without an ounce of investigative fact checking.
In Catemaco itself, noticias (news) is usually delivered by an old car cruising the streets, and blaring
through loudspeakers, anything that anyone paid to announce, including deaths, events, sales, current
crimes or incitations to public protests. At times a single page flyer available for 5 pesos accompanies the
announcements.
Veracruz, like any area of Mexico, is a hotbed of political expression. And those political rages and
glorifications are printed as news because usually that news is paid for by the person, political party,
government or organization that wants news coverage. It is a strange arrangement but apparently satisfies
the readers. Maybe some of the local publications are independent, but I don´t know.
All of them, nevertheless cover most major events, unless of course, their favorite was negatively involved.
And all of them are essentially "negative" on anything relating to Mexico originating north of the Mexican
border.
and a TV station.
Television is a more or less monopolistic event provided through 2 channels piped from Mexico City.
Cable TV is available in Catemaco, including the CNN international news feed, and usually 4-6 channels
showing English speaking re-runs and Spanish sub-titled movies. The Veracruz government also operates
both an intermittent cable TV and full time Radio station.
Radio is a little less restrictive. An "independent" radio station, FM 92.7, beams from San Andres Tuxtla, and
covers the Catemaco area, and the Veracruz State radio channel Radio MAS is a wonderful listening
channel, if reachable on your hill or in your valley.
Daily newspapers issue from San Andrés Tuxtla and include Diario Los Tuxtlas and Eypantla Milenio. In
addition, several weekly, some online, publications also provide mostly political news. The best is possibly
Palestra which does have some non political depth and one of whose columnists in online. Others are
Renovacion, Perfil Tuxtleco and Politica en Los Tuxtlas. Many are extraordinarily hateful and slanderous
rags without an ounce of investigative fact checking.
In Catemaco itself, noticias (news) is usually delivered by an old car cruising the streets, and blaring
through loudspeakers, anything that anyone paid to announce, including deaths, events, sales, current
crimes or incitations to public protests. At times a single page flyer available for 5 pesos accompanies the
announcements.
Veracruz, like any area of Mexico, is a hotbed of political expression. And those political rages and
glorifications are printed as news because usually that news is paid for by the person, political party,
government or organization that wants news coverage. It is a strange arrangement but apparently satisfies
the readers. Maybe some of the local publications are independent, but I don´t know.
All of them, nevertheless cover most major events, unless of course, their favorite was negatively involved.
And all of them are essentially "negative" on anything relating to Mexico originating north of the Mexican
border.
| If you want to read current Catemaco & Los Tuxtlas news, click: Los Tuxtlas Noticias |
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