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The Club de Periodistas de México is a nonprofit civil association based in Mexico City that describes itself as an organization that “has promoted journalistic excellence since 1952.” Its director, Celeste Sáenz de Miera, has publicly stated that, in her view, “it is a [communication] crime to lie deliberately.”
The Club’s media arm is Voces del Periodista, which includes a magazine and a website where, according to the site, “freedom of expression and journalistic rigor” are promoted.
But an analysis conducted at Factchequeado’s request by the Alliance for Securing Democracy (AS), part of the nonpartisan German Marshall Fund think tank, found that the Voces del Periodista website “has acted as a conduit for pro-Kremlin and anti-Western propaganda.”
Since April 2025, over 70% of its articles have come from Russian state media
Peter Benzoni, a senior analyst with the Alliance for Securing Democracy, extracted all articles published on Voces del Periodista over a five-year period — from March 19, 2020 (when the first article was posted) to Sept. 29, 2025 — a total of 4,539 items. He found that more than half (54%) were attributed to Russian (RT, Sputnik) or Cuban (Prensa Latina) state media and noted that “those percentages are skewed lower by the fact that Voces did not start sourcing content — at least transparently — from Russian or Cuban outlets until April 1, 2025.”
The review also found that the publication rate surged beginning April 1, 2025, rising from 35.6 to 136.9 articles per week, along with the number of republications from Russian and Cuban state media. In that period — just five months, from April 1 to Sept. 29, 2025 — nearly three-quarters of the content (72%) came from state outlets, mainly Russia’s RT and Sputnik (53%), followed by Prensa Latina (18.6%).
The data was collected using the WordPress endpoints of the Voces del Periodista website, from which fields such as URL, author, title, content, and publication date were extracted. Endpoints act as access points to WordPress-based sites and allow structured extraction of published content.
According to the report, beginning April 1, 2025, roughly half of the articles were published less than five minutes apart, “denoting the likely use of automation to source and publish the content.”
“Whatever Voces del Periodista’s purpose was prior to April 2025,” the report says, “it now serves less as an aggregator or producer of regional news and more as an amplifier of state-backed propaganda,” because “it routinely imports, packages, and circulates narratives from Russian and Cuban state media, lending them local presence and legitimacy.”
The Alliance for Securing Democracy concluded that Voces del Periodista “functions as a client node in a media-vassalage chain,” and while Voces del Periodista “reads like a genuine, domestic journalistic endeavor,” it is simultaneously “advancing Russian and Cuban perspectives on U.S. policies, the Ukraine War, geopolitics, and international affairs.”
The site therefore “now acts more like a front for Russian and Cuban propaganda than a ‘platform that promotes freedom of expression and journalistic rigor,’ as its website suggests.”
Read the full ASD report here.
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