Government seeks to impose censorship through the figure of political violence based on gender, accuses Somos; they back the cartoonist Paco Navarrete

The Somos party backed Paco Navarrete after the Regional Chamber of Guadalajara of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch (TEPJF) determined that the cartoonist committed political violence on the basis of gender against Morena congresswoman Itzul Barrera following the publication of the political cartoon "La diputa-da en su paraíso" ("The Whore-woman in her paradise"). "AGAINST CENSORSHIP, WHATEVER IT TAKES, PACO NAVARRETE!!", Somos wrote on social media, accusing that through the figure of political violence on the basis of gender, the government of Mexico, Morena, and its allies seek to "impose censorship." "We are on the eve of judicial persecution of those of us who oppose single-think, those of us who believe Mexico is walking a path of anti-democratic regression, and those of us who fight and will keep fighting for the restoration of the Republic and the institutions of Democracy," he stated on his X account. Cartoonist Paco Navarrete was sanctioned with offering a daily apology for 15 days on social media to Congresswoman Barrera, and was also entered into the National Registry of Persons Sanctioned for Political Violence against Women on the Basis of Gender. The political cartoon "La diputa-da en su paraíso" was flagged for associating an image of the legislator in which her legs are visible, which, according to the ruling, sexualizes her and shows a part of her body with a "covert intention of discredit associated with the word 'puta' (whore)" based on the grammatical division of the word alongside the image. Somos, whose national president is Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, recalled the case preceding the decision, when in 2024 citizen Karla María Estrella Murrieta was sanctioned for gender-based political violence against Congresswoman Diana Karina Barreras over a social media comment about alleged nepotism, for which she had to apologize for 30 days. "We have seen this tactic with Protected Data and replicated in Puebla, Veracruz, Tamaulipas, and in the grotesque manner carried out by Campeche to revive the censor of Porfirian times," the opposition party declared. Likewise, Somos took the opportunity to lash out at the controversial Anti-Meme Law, saying that "the regime seeks by every means to silence the constitutional right to free expression of Mexican women and men." You may be interested in: History repeats itself: cartoonist must apologize to Morena congresswoman Ken Salazar questions ICE agents' actions against migrants; "what we are seeing today in the US is wrong," he says Morena arrives at its council with fractures Minute by minute