"Mexican authorities must immediately and properly investigate threats against journalist Rodrigo Bustillos and guarantee his safety, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday (Sept 16). Bustillos, a veteran reporter based in Tehuacán in the central Mexican state of Puebla, currently works for privately owned news sites Domingo7 Tehuacán and Grupo Entiempo Comunicaciones, which post their coverage on Facebook. […]
"Comunicación e Información de la Mujer (CIMAC, by its Spanish acronym) presented the research paper 'Dejar todo: Diagnóstico sobre mujeres periodistas en situación de desplazamiento forzado interno en México y de las obligaciones del Estado en materia de atención, prevención y protección' (Leaving everything behind: Diagnosis of women journalists in a situation of forced internal displacement […]
"The International Day against the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, which was commemorated on Aug. 30, is a transcendental day to make visible the people, men and women who have been subjected to this inhumane practice. Also for their families, who have taken on a heroic struggle to find their relatives. Journalists are also part of […]
"Journalist Fredid Román has been shot dead Mon. aft. on Aug. 2, in downtown Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state in Mexico. Authorities have only confirmed his death, inside his car, sitting in the driver's seat. Some close friends say that the crime was committed at the doorstep of his home where he also produced […]
"In the first half of 2022, ARTICLE 19 recorded 331 attacks against journalists and news outlets. In comparison, the first half of 2016 ARTICLE 19 recorded 218 attacks against the press. This means that in the same period of the government of Enrique Peña Nieto and Andrés Manuel López Obrador there is an increase of […]
"After being reported missing, authorities in Sonora [Mexico] confirmed the discovery of the lifeless journalist Juan Arjón López [on Aug. 16]. [...] 'Since we had knowledge through social media we began to organize searches in all places. Now that the discovery has been made, we continue to work on the investigation to clarify the case […]
"Four media workers of the MegaRadio station in Chihuahua were killed during a day of attacks in Ciudad Juarez this Thurs. Aug. 11. According to a report by Diario de Juárez, they victims were: radio host Allan González; Lino Flores, marketing; Operations Manager Armando Guerrero, and bodyguard Alex Arriaga. They were streaming live from the […]
"On Aug. 6, Mexican journalist and writer, Jesús Lemus Barajas, revealed that he is being persecuted by the Mexican Prosecutor's Office following the publication of his recently released book "El fiscal imperial: El eslabón más oscuro de la 4T" [The imperial prosecutor: The darkest link in the 4th transformation or 4T] (Harper Collins, 2022). In […]
"The wave of violence against journalists in Mexico continues. On Tuesday night (Aug. 2), journalist Ernesto Méndez, director of the media outlet 'Tú Voz,' was killed during an attack on a bar in the Cerro Prieto neighborhood in San Luis de la Paz, in Guanajuato; this is the 13th homicide of a communicator so far […]
"Forty percent of the aggressions, threats and even homicides committed against journalists in Mexico come from state and municipal authorities, acknowledged Enrique Irazoque Palazuelos, head of the Unit for the Defense of Human Rights. During his visit to Sinaloa, where an agreement was signed with the state government to guarantee the defense mechanism for journalists […]