"Journalists in Chilpancingo [in the Mexican state of Guerrero] issued a statement saying that media workers are going through the worst period in their history: ‘Never before has freedom of expression been so threatened and at risk, both due to organized crime violence and the censorship imposed by those in political power and control of public resources.’
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'Criminal groups, with the complacency of the authorities at all three levels of government, seek to impose silence through fear, not only on the press but on society in general. On the other hand, political power groups and authorities seek to impose censorship through quasi-legal mechanisms in order to maintain the opacity and impunity of their excesses,' reads the text read by photojournalist Jessica Natividad Torres.
The document added that Guerrero state has been a difficult and risky place to practice journalism, to the extent that organizations that monitor cases of physical violence, attacks and threats rank it second in murders of journalists and first in displacements and attacks, leaving large areas silenced."
