"For the civil organization Article 19 there is no doubt: the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is already the most violent against journalists and the media since records have been kept.
This was stated this Tuesday, April 5, at a press conference held by Leopoldo Maldonado, director of the organization that defends freedom of expression for Mexico and Central America, in his 2021 annual report which he titled 'Denial,' as criticism of the president's speech and his communications office.
During the first three years of AMLO's administration, 1,945 attacks against the press have been registered. Among them, the murder of 33 journalists (eight of them so far in 2022) and the disappearance of two more, which means an increase of 85% in aggressions and up to 50% in murders with respect to previous administrations. In 2021 alone, Article 19 documented 644 attacks; that is, one every 14 hours."
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