The Mexican Karla Estrella ended an unusual judicial conviction on Sunday: to publish daily excuses for 30 consecutive days after criticizing, on social networks, a couple of government politicians.
The punishment was based on Mexican laws against gender political violence and electoral propaganda, devices that, experts, are often applied against parties, large entrepreneurs and communication vehicles, not against ordinary citizens.
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The case began in 2024, when Karla accused Deputy Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, current president of the House of Representatives and member of the brunette, party of leftist president Claudia Sheinbaum of nepotism.
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The supposed beneficiary would be the parliamentarian’s wife, Diana Karina Barreras, then a candidate for deputy. Although not mentioned nominally in the post, Barreras sued Karla.
For the court, the publication “affected” the professional performance of barreras by putting it in a position of “subordination to a male figure, minimizing their abilities and trajectory.” Karla’s defense claimed that criticism was restricted to the deputy, but the magistrates rejected the argument.
Couple became a public target
In addition to the excuses, Karla was fined and will have the name listed until 2027 as “person sanctioned by gender political violence.”
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The measure, however, may have had the opposite effect: since condemnation, the political couple has been the target of a new wave of online criticism, with posts that highlight alleged signs of luxurious life.
“I am an ordinary citizen who uses his networks to give his opinion, have fun and inform himself. I have no power to change the policy in Mexico, nor was that the intention,” said Karla, criticizing the use of public resources to process it.
Sheinbaum classifies punishment as “excess”
President Claudia Sheinbaum herself has classified punishment as an “excess” and stated that “power is humility, not superb.” The Inter -American Press Society (SIP) also warned of a “worrying tendency” of new forms of judicial and legislative censorship in Mexico.
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Karla intends to resort to international instances, such as the Inter -American Court of Human Rights, claiming to have been the victim of restriction disproportionate to freedom of expression.
