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The Pete Quiñones Show
Peter R Quiñones
Since July 2017, Pete Quiñones has been the host of The Pete Quiñones Show (previously known as Free Man Beyond the Wall). His program has focused on the opposition to the globalist project that has undermined historical endeavors. His current interests include philosophy and historical revisionism.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.
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Mixed50% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Sen Katayama was a leader of the Mexican Communist Party.Said by 23CSources support that Sen Katayama led Comintern organizing efforts in Mexico around 1921, but they do not describe him as a leader of the Mexican Communist Party itself. Party leadership is attributed to José Allen (secretary-general) and M.N. Roy, so the claim is only partly supported. The post's own passage lists Katayama among the party's leadership, but that is the claimant's assertion, not evidence.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Communist Party of Mexico dissolved and became the Party of the Democratic Revolution in 1987.The sources support that the Mexican Communist Party's remnants (via the PSUM) were absorbed into the Party of the Democratic Revolution, but they contradict the 1987 date: the PRD was founded in 1989, while 1987 was when Cárdenas and the Democratic Current broke from the PRI. The PCM had also merged into the PSUM in 1981, so the claimed 1987 transformation is inaccurate.Mixed70% confidence8 sourcesOct 1, 2026The M-19 guerrilla group operated from 1974 to 1994.The sources support a 1974 start (though some date it 1972 to 1973, and Britannica says 1973-74) but contradict the 1994 end date: they report the group demobilized after a March 1990 peace agreement. The claim also silently changes the post's 'MS-19' to 'M-19', which is a typo-level identifier fix and does not change the referent.Mixed55% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador complained to Vice President Kamala Harris that USAID funding to Mexico should be suspended due to election interference.Said by 23CThe sources support that Lopez Obrador protested USAID-linked funding as election interference in May 2021, just before a call with then-VP Harris, but they do not show him complaining to Harris about it. The record also shows he asked the US to stop funding specific opposition or anti-corruption groups, not to suspend USAID funding to Mexico as a whole. The post's 'President Oberdorff' is resolved to Lopez Obrador, which is a reasonable reading given the surrounding Mexico references.Mixed55% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026From 2018 to March of 2024, 1,709 people running for office were murdered or attacked in Mexico.Said by 23CThe 1,709 figure for 2018 to March 2024 appears in the Wilson Center and The Conversation, but those sources count murders, assassinations, attacks and threats against people in politics and government, including officials and party facilities, not only people running for office. The number is right, but the population it describes is broader than the claim says.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026Claudia Sheinbaum hired a crew to demolish a building in Mexico City that resulted in the accidental destruction of a wall next to a church.Said by 23CAs Tlalpan borough mayor in 2016, Sheinbaum's government ordered the demolition of an unpermitted wall beside the Señor de los Trabajos chapel, and workers also accidentally destroyed part of the chapel. The claim is partly right but misstates the details: the wall was the intended target and the accidental destruction hit the chapel, borough staff rather than a hired crew did the work, and fact-checkers reject the idea that she ordered the chapel destroyed.Mixed55% confidence3 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Philippines has been under CIA control since the 1940s.The sources support that the CIA was active in the Philippines from the 1940s, with a Southeast Asia headquarters in Manila, but none says the Philippines has been under CIA 'control'. The Factbook records independence in 1946 and the closing of US bases in 1992, which cuts against the control framing; the claim's literal wording overstates real CIA influence into control.Mixed60% confidence4 sourcesOct 1, 2026The National Action Party filed 240 challenges regarding the Mexican presidential election.The 240 challenges figure appears in one source (Wikipedia, credibility 0.40), which says PAN, PRI, PRD and MC collectively filed 240 challenges against the presidential results, with the PRD spearheading most of them. PAN participated, but the claim credits PAN alone with the filing, which overstates its role.Mixed50% confidence9 sourcesOct 1, 2026Claudia Sheinbaum's family founded the Communist Parties of Mexico and Cuba.The sources support that Sheinbaum's grandfather was involved with the Cuban communist movement and that one column credits him as a founder of Cuba's first Communist Party in 1925, but that column is an unrated opinion piece. They describe her grandfather and father as members or officials of the Mexican Communist Party, not its founders, and the Mexican party already existed when they joined, so the claim that the family founded the Mexican party is not supported. The claim also drops the post's hedge, 'or at least were right there when it was founded'. The extraction is otherwise faithful to the passage.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026Morena holds supermajorities in both houses of the Mexican Congress.Read as the Morena-led coalition (with PT and PVEM), the claim is largely supported: BTI and Rio Times report supermajorities in both chambers as of 2026. Read as Morena alone, it is contradicted, since Morena holds about 66 of 128 Senate seats and about 254 of 500 deputies, short of two-thirds in each house. The post called these supermajorities 'alleged', which the extraction dropped, but that is a qualifier and is graded normally.True85% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026Israel possesses nuclear weapons.Said by BIndependent sources, including the House of Commons Library, SIPRI, NTI and AP, estimate that Israel possesses roughly 80 to 90 nuclear weapons, though Israel officially neither confirms nor denies having them. The claim is a faithful extraction of the passage, and the official ambiguity does not contradict possession; the estimates vary slightly (80 vs 90), which is within rounding.True70% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Matthew Raphael Johnson holds a PhD in the history of political philosophy from the University of Nebraska.Said by BMultiple sources state that Matthew Raphael Johnson earned a doctorate from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1999, which supports the core claim. The sources describe his focus as anti-modernist social philosophy and the history of philosophy rather than using the exact phrase 'history of political philosophy', and most trace back to his own bios, so confidence is capped.