"Journalist Makario Sierra was beaten by agents of the state’s Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC, for its initials in Spanish) while covering a security operation in the municipality of Juventino Rosas. Makario Sierra, a reporter for the digital news outlet El Otro Enfoque, was transported to the community hospital suffering from injuries to his head, face, […]
"Tele Saltillo reporter Jerson Cardozo was assaulted the morning of Friday, April 17, during a live broadcast he was conducting to report on a car rollover in [the city of Saltillo, in the Mexican state of Coahuila]. Videos show that […] companions of the driver physically attacked and chased the journalist. The footage also shows […]
"Last Friday, April 10, journalist Gabriel Jesús Chan Uicab was physically assaulted and kept from reporting by two officers from the Yucatán Public Security Secretariat in Dzununcán, Mérida. Chan, a reporter for Diario de Yucatán, had gone to cover a car accident at the kilometer 6 overpass of Mérida’s peripheral road. The incident allegedly involved […]
"Samuel Rodolfo Vizcarra Velarde admitted to his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of journalist and El Debate newspaper columnist Luis Enrique Ramírez Ramos and was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the crime of aggravated homicide, the State Attorney General's Office of Culiacán reported. The conviction of the perpetrator of the crime against […]
"On March 18, 2026, Juan David Gámez [owner of local news site Táctica SS] was shot dead in the Valle de Lincoln neighborhood of García, in the northern state of Nuevo León. According to information [from Reporters Without Borders, RSF], he was attacked while riding his motorcycle near his home. Juan David Gámez regularly published […]
"Oaxacan journalist and head of the news site OM Noticias, Óscar Merino Ruiz, was shot and wounded in an attack Tuesday night in Santiago Pinotepa Nacional, a town on Oaxaca’s coast, the National Forum of Journalists and Communicators confirmed. The shooting took place in a public area and left him seriously injured. He was taken […]
"Carlos Dada is one of the most respected Latin American journalists worldwide, but he can’t practice journalism in his own country. Founder and editor in chief of the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, Dada now lives in exile. Harassment by President Nayib Bukele forced El Faro to move its headquarters to Costa Rica, and Dada and his colleagues […]
Pedro Segura, a former candidate with Mexico's Green and Labor parties for governor in the state of Guerrero, threatened journalist Carlos Loret de Mola after the latter showed on the digital channel Latinus a video showing Segura singing a corrido in tribute to the alleged slain drug trafficker Nemesio Oseguera “El Mencho.” In a video […]
"Following the ruling issued this Thursday [Feb. 26] by the Trial Court in Puebla, those responsible for the murder of journalist Marco Aurelio Ramírez in Tehuacán were sentenced to 46 years and five months in prison each. They are Jesús Armando N. and José Francisco N., who received the sentence after a judicial process that […]
"While broadcasting live from inside the Sinpelos.mx facilities, unknown individuals allegedly launched a Molotov cocktail attack against the location where journalist Víctor Badillo was, alarming internet users. [...] According to available information, the people inside the building, including the journalist, were unharmed. Fortunately, the attack did not escalate and only material damage was reported, mainly […]
"On Friday, Feb. 20, journalist Fernanda de Luna Ferral was notified by the Veracruz Public Security Secretariat (SSP, for its Spanish initials) about the withdrawal of her security detail, even though these types of measures are carried out in coordination with the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, an agency that did not […]
"Reporter Leonardo Martínez Peralta —displaced for four years— denounced that the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists has ignored his request to change his refuge, even though the place has been broken into and robbed on at least three occasions. He recounted that in March 2025, thieves broke into the house provided by […]