"Adela Navarro, general director of the weekly ZETA Tijuana, has received at least eight threats against her, allegedly due to her journalistic work, between April 29 and May 16. Organizations have called for authorities to investigate and condemned the violent acts against her. Article 19, in its offices for Mexico and Central America, said the […]
“Avisack Douglas, a journalist working as a photographer for a candidate from the Citizens Movement (MC for its initials in Spanish) party, died at a hospital from multiple gunshot wounds, according to reports. The Mexican Association of Communicators and Journalists confirmed and condemned what it called her ‘cowardly murder.’ Luis Carbonell, the party’s state leader, […]
"On May 12, organizations PROJUC [Proyecto Justicia Común] and ARTICLE 19 Office for Mexico and Central America filed an indirect amparo claim against various provisions of [Mexico's] new General Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information, published after its approval by Congress on March 20, 2025. On May 15, a District Court in Mexico […]
“José Carlos González Herrera, who managed the Facebook page ‘El Guerrero Opinión Ciudadana’, with 142,000 followers, was shot in the center of the port of Acapulco, despite the special operation deployed by authorities from the city’s Public Security Secretariat. According to initial reports, José Carlos González, known as El Fénix, was killed by several gunshot […]
The Oaxaca Prosecutor's Office reported that those convicted of the murder of journalist Heber López Vázquez received sentences of 35 and 40 years in prison for the crime of murder in the first degree. With the sentence, the Prosecutor's Office added, the trial that began three years ago against Ricardo E. C. and Ricardo G. […]
"Mexican authorities must investigate the disappearance of journalist Miguel Ángel Anaya Castillo, the founder and editor of news website Pánuco Online, and determine whether it is related to his work as a journalist, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. [...] Anaya was last seen on April 13 in Pánuco, a town in the eastern […]
"Judge Guadalupe Patricia Juárez Hernández ruled that Ricardo E. C. and Ricardo G. R. are criminally responsible for the aggravated homicide of Heber Fernando López Vásquez, a journalist murdered in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. According to the journalist's family and colleagues, the final hearing in the legal proceedings against the two people accused of […]
“The Attorney General's Office reported this Wednesday [April 30] that someone was linked to the case for the murder of journalist Gustavo Sánchez Cabrera in 2021. Authorities have identified the alleged perpetrator as Esteban 'C,' and he faces charges of attempted murder. The Attorney General's Office explained that it took on the case because the […]
"The Senate is expected to approve next week—hastily, without discussion, without open parliament, without arguments or criteria—a new Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law, establishing a regime of executive control over the allocation of the radio spectrum, concessions and oversight, creating risks of censorship and preference for allied actors. Among the main problems in the law are, […]
“Independent journalist Miguel Ángel Anaya Castillo, director of the news page Pánuco OnLine, was reported missing on Saturday [April 19]. The State Commission for the Attention and Protection of Journalists (CEAPP) in Veracruz, Mexico, confirmed that the appropriate protocols to locate him have been activated. [...] The CEAPP reported Anaya Castillo's disappearance and said that […]
"Mexico City’s 20th Collegiate Administrative Court ruled unanimously that the 'Who’s Who in the Lies?' segment of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s daily press conferences functioned as a tool top stigmatize critical journalists. The court found public resources were used to discredit and single out journalists as 'liars,' effectively granting the presidency the power […]
“Journalist Eduardo Segura, of media outlet Jarocho Informativo, reported that last Friday night [April 11] two men on a motorcycle threw Molotov cocktails at his van in the municipality of Tantoyuca [in the Mexican state of Veracruz]. [...] Segura said that his neighbors helped him to put out the fire and that he lamented this […]