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Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Buffett Conversation: Violence, Politics, & the Press in Mexico

Watch the recording of our spring 2026 Buffett Conversation on violence, politics, and the press in Mexico with Paul Gillingham, Professor of History at Northwestern University and author of Mexico: A 500-Year History; Javier Garza, the Mexican journalist who co-hosts El Noti, one of the most popular news podcasts in the country, and runs Horizonte Lagunero, a local news platform; Judith Matloff, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and author of No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands; and Andrew Paxman, Professor of History at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City and author of Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s.