Journalist who chronicled the social and political pressures hovering just beneath Mexico’s surfaceThe journalist Jo Tuckman arrived in
Mexico in 2000 to write about the end of seven decades of one-party rule, eager to cover what she thought would be a time of great political change. The energy of that transition quickly wilted though, and she turned her intense reporter’s gaze to chronicle the social and political pressures hovering just beneath Mexico’s surface.
In two decades of covering Mexico for the Guardian and other publications and in her 2012 book, Mexico: Democracy Interrupted, Jo, who has died of
cancer aged 53, wrote with empathy of the people she met and dispassionately about their leaders’ failings.