[Below is an AI translation of a Spanish article originally published on larouchepub.com.]

Here we go again! A “Russia, Russia, Russia” campaign has been launched against Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum , her government, and the Mexican Journalists’ Club, spearheaded by a ludicrous New York Times article from November 24th titled “Russian Disinformation Comes to Mexico, Seeking to Rupture US Ties.” On the same day, a series of seven articles was published on the websites Factchequeado (United States) and Animal Político (Mexico) to defame Mexico’s leading association of independent journalists, the Mexican Journalists’ Club, claiming it is part of “Putin’s laundering operation.”

The combination leaves no doubt that this campaign, which seeks to portray “Russian agents everywhere,” is yet another front in the ongoing destabilization operation against the Sheinbaum government in Mexico. Factchequeado and Animal Político are generously funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (of the US government) and the Open Society Institute; both actively participated in promoting the protest marches of the so-called “Generation Z” that took place throughout Mexico on November 15. As EIR reported, the march was organized and directed from abroad by fascist financiers through their Atlas Foundation networks.

The  New York Times cites two “investigations” as sources for its embarrassingly flimsy article: an April 2024 U.S. internal diplomatic cable titled “Mexico: RT’s Invasion,” which the Times correspondent “reviewed”; and a “new investigation” into the Journalists’ Club prepared by Factchequeado and, according to the Times, by the German Marshall Fund. The Times article  contains platitudes as ludicrous as the claim that the Morena party, founded by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “continues to govern Mexico and includes officials sympathetic to Russia, according to current and former U.S. officials,” and that “British and French officials expressed concern to the Mexican Foreign Ministry about Russia’s activities, according to three people familiar with the discussions.” (They didn’t even bother to verify that the Mexican executive branch doesn’t have “Ministries,” but rather “Secretariats”; but whatever.)

The article specifically names Jenaro Villamil, director of Mexico’s National Broadcasting System, and the Mexican Journalists’ Club as alleged disseminators of Russian propaganda. According to the Times, the Club “has formed an alliance with RT”(Good heavens!). They reserve a particularly vitriolic tone for the Journalists’ Club’s secretary general, Celeste Sáenz, who has denounced the attack as a blatant attempt at intimidation.

If you think the Times‘s story is empty and flimsy, take a look at the seven (very repetitive) articles prepared by  Factchequeado and its team. For example, the article titled “The Club de Periodistas: A Front for Russian Disinformation and Propaganda in the Heart of Mexico City” cites as proof that the Club is a Russian disinformation organization the fact that it publishes “Kremlin-driven narratives,” such as the claim that “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was caused by ‘NATO’s eastward expansion.’” These kinds of accusations will remind readers of Ukraine’s deadly “Center for Countering Disinformation.”

The Journalists’ Club has a decades-long history as a center for patriotic journalism that champions Mexico’s struggle for sovereign development. It is also internationally renowned for its annual awards recognizing exemplary international journalists for their work in the name of freedom of expression. Julian Assange, for example, received its “Freedom of Expression” award in 2019. EIR News is proud that in 2022 the Club honored Helga Zepp-LaRouche (EIR’s Director General and founder of the Schiller Institute) with an award for “Promoting Freedom of Expression from within academia,” and that in 2025, EIR‘s Director for Latin America, Dennis Small, was honored with an award for EIR‘s efforts in support of world peace.

Factchequeado  is not journalism; it’s just another cog in the NATO military-industrial-financial complex’s “disinformation” censorship machine, as a quick glance at its funders reveals. Let’s start with the so-called “International Center for Journalists” (ICFJ), which has provided staff, funding, and guidance to this “fact-checker” since its founding in 2022, and which “supported” (i.e., paid for) the “investigation” into the Journalists’ Club. The ICFJ is run by and for the major corporate news outlets (from  AP  to  Fox News , and all in between), and supported by the U.S. State Department and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, with funding from Meta, Google, Bloomberg, and others. Among Factchequeado ‘s other “promoters”   is George Soros’s Open Society Institute, and that says it all.

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