Implications of the secondary legislation in the field of broadcasting on the indigenous media and community of Mexico

Abstract

Political discourse about media plurality, recently spread in Mexico, incorporated notions that supposed the strengthening of community and indigenous radio. The culmination of this legislative rhetoric was materialized in the recently published federal law about telecommunications and broadcasting (Federal Law of Telecommunications and Broadcasting). From the perspective of critical discourse analysis, the examination of this law and the others administrative documents which preceded it, allows asserting that the supporting arguments in these administrative, political and legislative acts, used the language to legitimize a proposed change, but in fact, represents the reproduction of dominant power structures, in which the consumption of alternative media broadcasting is hampered by a system that benefits the commercial sector, in demerit of the social role played by community and indigenous radio stations in our country. © Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales.