"The organizations Front for Freedom of Expression and Social Protest (FLEPS, by its Spanish acronym), Platform for Peace and Justice in Guanajuato and Women's Communication and Information A.C. (CIMAC) condemned the abuse of force and physical violence by the municipal police of Irapuato, in the state of Guanajuato, towards women journalists and demonstrators. They were protesting […]
"The body of Mexican journalist Luis Enrique Ramírez was found this Thursday (May 5) next to a highway in Culiacán, the capital of the state of Sinaloa in Mexico, one day after he was reported missing. (...) Ramírez's homicide is the ninth against the Mexican press in 2022, a particularly violent year against the country's […]
“Escalating violence against journalists in Mexico is seriously undermining press freedom, Human Rights Watch said today, on World Press Freedom Day. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador should take urgent steps to strengthen the federal government protection mechanism, stop official harassment of journalists who criticize the government, and ensure prosecutors end the near-total impunity for these […]
"This Monday, April 25, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), took advantage of his usual morning press conference to exhibit the alleged luxury property of the communicator Carlos Loret de Mola, who works as the owner of the news outlet Latinus and as a columnist for the newspapers El Universal and The […]
"In Mexico, being a woman and a journalist implies a double violence. On the one hand, the one that impacts us every day with 10 murdered women; and on the other, the absolute lack of access to comprehensive protection for the exercise of freedom of expression, with 99% of impunity in recorded cases of attacks […]
“The right to freedom of the press is experiencing an extremely delicate moment in countries such as Nicaragua, Venezuela, El Salvador, Cuba or Mexico, black spots on a continent in which 24 journalists have died in the last 12 months, Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) officials said on Tuesday, April 19. In his speech at the […]
"For the civil organization Article 19 there is no doubt: the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is already the most violent against journalists and the media since records have been kept. This was stated this Tuesday, April 5, at a press conference held by Leopoldo Maldonado, director of the organization that defends […]
"The Chamber of Deputies celebrated the approval of the Ingrid Law as a historic advance for the rights of victims and against the re-victimization of women who suffer femicide. All parties approved last week for the first time a reform to the Penal Code that punishes with up to 10 years in prison the dissemination […]
"Gustavo Abigail 'N,' detained based on an arrest warrant as having allegedly involved in the murder of the journalist from Veracruz Julio Valdivia in Tezonapa, is the son of the then Oaxacan PRI deputy Gustavo 'N,' currently under criminal proceedings. He's accused of allegedly having shot at police officers in the municipality of Fortín, Veracruz, […]
"President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed this Tuesday, March 29, that a debate be held to analyze the role of the media and social networks, since he assured that they are attacking his government. He denied that he is generating censorship, since he stressed that he's only responding to attacks of his opponents: 'There's no […]