Antonio Martínez Velázquez

Antonio Martínez is a human rights defender and a journalist. Currently he is Executive Director of Horizontal, an independent media and cultural center based in Mexico City. For the past decade, he has worked to enable political participation through digital tools. His work has been published in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs Latin America, RollingStone magazine, El Universal, Gatopardo, Animal Político and Reforma. He coauthored the books: Pensar Internet (“ThinkingInternet”), 2017; Recuperar la política(“Recover politics”), 2017; CiudadanosMX:Twitter y el cambio politico en México (“CiudadanosMX: Twitter and political change in Mexico”), 2011. Now he is writing he's first book about freedom of speech and social networks.