Denise DRESSER GUERRA

In 2024, political scientist, journalist and author Denise Dresser Guerra challenged ongoing harassment and threats posted on Dresser's personal social media that had begun in April 2023 in connection with her reporting of alleged conflicts of interest and influence peddling by then President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s children (see Case List 2023/2024).  

In August 2024, Dresser was granted a legal protection order from the 19th Collegiate Court on Administrative Matters in response to a lawsuit filed against the then president. Dresser argued that during morning press conferences, the president made systematic comments that qualified, degraded and reviled her journalistic work, without giving her the opportunity to reply. The court ruled that such actions constituted an abuse of power and established that public officials must verify information before issuing it, guaranteeing that it is truthful and unbiased, as established in the Constitution. 

Denise Dresser, born on 22 January 1963 in Mexico City, is a Mexican political analyst, columnist and academic. Dresser is the author of numerous books including ¿Qué sigue? 20 lecciones para para ser ciudadano en un país en riesgo (What's next? 20 lessons for citizenship in a country at risk); El país de uno (Own country); Neopopulist Solutions to Neoliberal Problems: Mexico's National Solidarity Program. She has published articles in the Journal of Democracy, Current History, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics and Foreign Policy. She writes a political column for the Mexican newspaper Reforma and the news weekly Proceso and was the host of the political talk shows Entreversiones and El País de Uno on Mexican television. She was a contributing writer at the Los Angeles Times, among other media.