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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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False85% confidence8 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Soviet Union had no days off during the late Leninist and Stalinist eras.The claim that the Soviet Union had no days off in the late Leninist and Stalinist eras is contradicted by the sources. Workers had rotating rest days under the 1929-1940 continuous-week system and a Sunday rest day before and after it, though the sources do show very harsh work discipline.False65% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026Mexico has a population of 150 million people.The claim is a faithful extraction of the speaker's remark, which gave 150 million as Mexico's population. As of 2026-10-01 the sources put Mexico's population at roughly 132 to 136 million, so 150 million overstates the current figure by about 12 percent. The 150 million figure matches UN projections for around 2050 to 2059, not the present population.False90% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026Claudia Sheinbaum received less than 40% of the vote in the first round of the 2024 Mexican presidential election.Tier1 sources on the June 2, 2024 election report Sheinbaum won about 58–60% of the vote, far above 40%, and the claim that she got under 40% in a 'first round' is contradicted. The sources describe a single presidential vote she won outright, with no runoff, so the post's 'first round' premise does not match the record; the claim departs from the passage's runoff framing, which is itself unsupported.False88% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026The National Regeneration Movement (Morena) won supermajorities in both houses of the Mexican legislature in the 2024 election.The 2024 election gave Morena and its allies a two-thirds supermajority in the lower house only. Reuters and Congress.gov both report the Senate fell short (83 of 128 seats, needing 85), so the claim that both houses had supermajorities from the election is contradicted. A later Senate supermajority via defections in November 2024 appears only in a lower-credibility Wikipedia source and does not rescue the claim as worded.False85% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Communist Party of Cuba was founded in 1917.No source gives 1917 as the founding year. The Communist Party of Cuba is dated to 3 October 1965 by Reuters, Wikipedia, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the sld.cu institutional page, and its predecessor, the first Cuban Communist Party, is dated to 1925 in several sources. The claimant's own passage hedged between 1914 and 1917 for a different party, and the claim departs from that hedge by stating 1917 as the CPC's founding.False95% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Leon Trotsky was assassinated in November 1939.The claim gets the date wrong: Trotsky was attacked on 20 August 1940 and died the next day, not in November 1939. The passage's 'axed in November' appears to refer to the same 1940 event, and the sources consistently place it in August 1940, so the claimed month and year are contradicted.False85% confidence8 sourcesOct 1, 2026Claudia Sheinbaum earned a doctorate degree at the University of California, Berkeley.The claim that Sheinbaum earned her doctorate at UC Berkeley is contradicted by the tier-1 Reuters profile and by Britannica and Wikipedia, which all place her doctorate at UNAM, with only her doctoral research done at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The claim departs from nothing in the passage: the post says she got her doctorate at Berkeley, so it is graded as made.False82% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Claudia Sheinbaum served as Secretary of the Environment in 2015.The claim is contradicted: reliable sources show Sheinbaum was Mexico City's Secretary of the Environment from 2000 to 2006 and was elected Tlalpan borough mayor in 2015, not environment secretary. Only one unrated baike entry (source 11) says she was federal Secretary of the Environment starting in 2015, and it conflicts with every tier1 and CNN source.False75% confidence4 sourcesOct 1, 2026In polling place Section 4279, votes for Xochitl Galvez were incorrectly attributed to Claudia Sheinbaum in the preliminary election results program.An AFP fact check of the viral Section 4279 comparison found that the figures came from two different polling stations, so they do not show that votes for Gálvez were moved to Sheinbaum in the PREP. The claim's core allegation is therefore contradicted by an authoritative review of the same polling section, though the only source addressing it is a single fact check.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False75% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Claudia Sheinbaum's first husband went to jail for electoral fraud.Said by 23CThe claim that Sheinbaum's first husband, Carlos Ímaz, went to jail for electoral fraud is contradicted by the AS profile, which says his prison sentence was replaced by a fine so he avoided jail, and that he was later exonerated. The New Yorker and Mexico News Daily sources report a sentence and an electoral-crime conviction, but none says he served prison time.False72% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Mexican government provided security guards to 560 candidates during the 2021 elections.Said by 23CThe 560 figure does not match the 2021 record: a May 2021 Reuters report cites government data showing 148 candidates under protection, and a May 2021 IACHR statement cites 65. The 560 figure appears only in 2024 election coverage, so the claim misdates it to 2021.False55% confidence4 sourcesOct 1, 202627,000 armed forces and National Guard personnel were deployed to secure the 2021 Mexican electoral process.Said by 23CThe claimed figure of 27,000 armed forces and National Guard personnel for 2021 election security does not match the one official record found, which reports 65,775 National Guard elements deployed for the 3-7 June 2021 electoral period across 22 states, more than twice the claimed number. No source reports 27,000, and the claim's armed-forces-plus-Guard scope is not broken out in that record, so the claim's specific figure is contradicted rather than merely unconfirmed.