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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.

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.

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