The documentary “Presumed Guilty,” about judicial mistakes and corruption in Mexico, may become a victim of the system it criticizes, La Crónica de Hoy reports. Last week, a federal judge issued a temporary injunction after a witness in a trial, which led to the ultimately overturned conviction of Antonio Zuniga for murder, said he never gave permission to be filmed, the Los Angeles Times explains.
According to the AFP, Mexico’s Interior Ministry says it will appeal the ruling, which blocks any screenings of what has become the most the most successful documentary in the country’s history.
The film’s director, Roberto Hernández, said the documentary is “a strike at the Mexican judicial system, which is corrupt and rotten” and hopes to mobilize Mexicans to demand changes in the criminal code, Televisa adds.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
