"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 […]
"On her way through Barcelona to present her memoir 'Cartas de amor y rebeldía [letters of love and rebellion]', Lydia Cacho explains in an interview with EFE that women journalists of her generation were pioneers 'in a men's industry where women were not welcome.' 'We lived in a world under a male gaze,' the Mexican […]
"At about 2 a.m. on Sunday, July 17, unidentified attackers shot at Haro, founder and editor of the Facebook-based news outlet Las Noticias de la Red, in Ciudad Obregón, in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, according to news reports, a statement by his outlet, and Haro, who spoke to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in a phone interview. […]
According to an investigation by the writers' association PEN, the coronavirus pandemic in particular has had a 'devastating' impact on freedom of opinion and expression in several countries. Among those most affected are authors, journalists and artists who have criticized official measures against the coronavirus. [...] The PEN Club points out that in many countries online platforms […]
“Every time a reporter is killed, his or her death explodes in the hearts of the country’s other journalists — like an earthquake with expanding effect. It doesn’t matter whether they knew the victim or not. Each murder revives feelings of fear, terror, desperation, rage, and sadness that accumulate over time. Every time a reporter is […]
"During the last two weeks ARTICLE 19, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Propuesta Cívica and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) documented a series of attacks against journalists and media outlets in the state of Tamaulipas, highlighting a worrying increase in the violence experienced in the area. ... Three journalists, two reporters and a cameraman, whose […]
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) condemned the attack on journalist Susana Mendoza Carreño, stabbed in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The organization urged the authorities to investigate the motive for the attack and guarantee her safety. Mendoza Carreño, director of Radio Universidad de Guadalajara and correspondent for Channel 44 of the University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, was […]
"On June 30, reporter Ana Lilia Mata went to cover a conference given by Santiago Nieto Castillo, former head of the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Mexican Federal Government. After the event ended, Mata tried to interview public officials, at which point a member of the Criminal Investigation Police (PIC, for its acronym in Spanish) […]
"On June 29th, Antonio de la Cruz became the twelfth journalist to be murdered so far this year in Mexico, a country that, according to the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF, for its acronym in French), is the second most dangerous country for journalism, only after Burma. [...] In view of this, the Organization issued […]
"Journalist Antonio de la Cruz was riddled with bullets near his home this Wednesday morning, June 29. A family member was wounded, according to initial reports from the authorities. The reporter, who had worked for 15 years for the Expreso newspaper in the capital of Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, has become the 12th murder of journalists […]