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John Mill Ackerman Rose is an American-born, naturalized Mexican political activist, TV host, and academic at UNAM.
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John Mill Ackerman Rose is an American-born, naturalized Mexican political activist, TV host, and academic at UNAM.
He is the son of social liberal thinker Bruce Ackerman and the economist Susan Rose-Ackerman, both professors at Yale Law School.
He earned his undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College and received his MA and PhD in Political Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ackerman is a professor of constitutional law at UNAM's Law School, and editor-in-chief of the Mexican Law Review magazine. [1]
He has contributed to international newspapers such as Proceso, La Jornada, El Universal, Reforma of Mexico, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, San Diego Union-Tribune in the United States and The Guardian in the United Kingdom on the topics of corruption control, elections, transparency, accountability, autonomous institutions and citizen participation.
He has also published research results in World Development, Administrative Law Review, Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado, Mexican Law Review, Gestión y Política Pública, Perfiles Latinoamericanos. He has also served as a senior consultant for the World Bank as well as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, PNUD, Global Integrity, Open Society Institute, International Budget Partnership, Secretary of the Public Function, United Nations Development Programme, Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, the Chamber of Deputies and for the Head of Government of the Federal District.
He is the host of two political talk shows, Diálogos por la democracia in TV UNAM, and John y Sabina with Sabina Berman, broadcast by Canal Once. [2] [3] The John y Sabina show has been criticized by the opposition as being government propaganda expensively funded with public money. [4] [5]
Ackerman is an activist for left-wing causes and an active supporter of National Regeneration Movement (Morena), a political party, and of its leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador. [6] He is married to Irma Eréndira Sandoval, former member of the cabinet as Minister of Public Administration. [7]
Ackerman defended the government of Nicolas Maduro, saying Venezuela was "much more democratic and respectful of human rights than Mexico". [8] [9] [10] In the same article, published on La Jornada on 27 March 2017, Ackerman claims there is no electoral fraud in Venezuela, that there is constant media censorship in Mexico, that there are more political prisoners in Mexico than in any other Latin American country and that there is a clear separation of branches of government in Venezuela. [11] He also claimed that Mexico is worse off than Venezuela in terms of corruption, poverty, inequality and violence. [11]
On June 27, 2020, the head of Public Security in Mexico City, Omar García Harfuch, survived an attempt on his life which he later blamed on the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. [12] Reacting to the news, Ackerman published a tweet in his personal Twitter account comparing journalists who have been critical of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador with drug cartel hitmen (sicarios), calling them "media sicarios". Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (in Spanish Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos, CNDH) and Reporteros Sin Fronteras condemned Ackerman's tweet, calling it "irresponsible" given that Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists. [13] [14]
In February 2020 Ackerman was proposed by Rosario Piedra Ibarra, director of the National Human Rights Commission to be a member of the technical evaluation committee of the Mexican National Electoral Institute (in Spanish Instituto Nacional Electoral, INE). [15] This committee has an important role in selecting INE's new directors and Ackerman's nomination was met with criticism due to his close personal and political affinity with the government, and being part of the ruling party's cadre training body. [16] [17] Congressman Juan Carlos Romero Hicks from the National Action Party (in Spanish Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) said that Ackerman did not meet the required neutral background, and René Juaréz Cisneros from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (in Spanish Partido Revolucionario Insitucional, PRI) asked the CNDH to reconsider the nomination due to Ackerman's position in a political party. [18] Together with PAN and PRI, two other opposition parties, Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and Citizen's Movement (MC) contested without success Ackerman's designation, which was confirmed by the Federal Electoral Tribunal. [19]
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