"The Committee to Protect Journalists [CPJ] will celebrate four extraordinary journalists from Georgia, India, Mexico, and Togo with its 2023 International Press Freedom Awards. […] María Teresa Montaño (México) is a prominent investigative reporter […]. Her journalism features investigations of corruption, transparency, gender violence, and accountability. […] In 2021, in retaliation for her reporting, she […]
"One year after the murder of journalist Antonio de la Cruz and his daughter Cynthia, the Attorney General's Office (FGR, by its Spanish acronym) announced on Wednesday [June 28] that Rafael Santiago Arano Rodríguez was apprehended and a judge ruled that he must face trial for the crime of aggravated homicide. De la Cruz was […]
"José González, a journalist from the state of Guerrero, was shot at [on Thursday, June 15] a few minutes after leaving his home. As a result of this aggression, he suffered several wounds in his arms. As a measure to ask for help, he started broadcasting live on social media, where [he can be seen] […]
"In the Zero Impunity report this Tuesday [June 13], the undersecretary of Security and Citizen Protection [of Mexico], Luis Rodríguez Bucio, highlighted the 30-year prison sentence to Nicasio N, for the intentional homicide of journalist María Elena Ferral Hernández on March 30, 2020. During President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's morning conference, the former general commander […]
"Dozens of communicators from Chiapas marched yesterday [June 7] in Tuxtla Gutiérrez to demand justice for the murders and aggressions against journalists, and that the practice of their informative work be guaranteed. The demonstrators walked through the streets of the state capital and concluded with a rally in front of the government palace, seat of […]
The team of the Mexican investigative journalism production company Dromómanos, which covers topics throughout Latin America, denounced having been the victim of a financial fraud on May 3. The case occurred in Mexico, a country with one of the highest rates of cybercrime in Latin America, according to the company. A sum of one million […]
"Five days after the murder of journalist Marco Aurelio Ramírez Hernández, on May 23 in Tehuacán [in the Mexican state of Puebla], early this Sunday [May 28] armed individuals opened fire against the home of reporter Pedro Alonso Benítez, located in the community of Santa Catarina Hueyatzacoalco, in the municipality of San Martín Texmelucan [in […]
The Attorney General's Office of the State of Puebla informed this Thursday [May 25] that it identified two people allegedly involved in the murder of journalist Marco Aurelio Ramírez that took place on Tuesday [May 23] in the municipality of Tehuacán [in Mexico]. In a press conference, state prosecutor Gilberto Higuera Bernal said that he […]
“The journalist and former municipal official, Marco Aurelio Ramírez Hernández, was shot to death this Tuesday [May 23] in the city of Tehuacán, state of Puebla, central Mexico, the third so far in 2023, defense organizations of freedom of expression said. Ramírez Hernández, 69, was shot at when he was traveling in his car after […]
"Three individuals allegedly involved in the murder of journalist María Elena Ferral Hernández in Papantla, Mexico, have been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The sentence was handed down by a judge from the Poza Rica Judicial District following a more than two-hour-long hearing on the night of Wednesday, May 17, 2023. The crime was […]
"Javier Arturo Valdez Cárdenas was nationally and internationally recognized for his crónicas and investigations, in which he reported the violence in his home state of Sinaloa, Mexico. He practiced journalism in the midst of the prevailing violence in Mexico and confronted, through his pen, corruption, political power and drug trafficking. For Javier, self-censorship was never […]
"Journalist Gerardo Torres Rentería was shot to death by a group of armed men on the night of May 11, 2023, inside his private home located on 2nd Street in the Icacos neighborhood, a few meters from Avenida Costera Miguel Áleman and the main entrance of the facilities of the Eighth Naval Region in Acapulco, […]