"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 […]
"Journalists from EL UNIVERSAL and environmental protection activists were attacked and threatened with death by an armed group while documenting the extraction of tepetate (brittle volcanic rock) on the Tecalco-Chiconautla hill, in San Pablo Tecalco, in the municipality of Tecámac, State of Mexico. The tepetate was destined to consolidate the infrastructure of the new Felipe […]
"Authorities arrested 16 people for their alleged participation in four of the murders of journalists registered this year in Mexico, the government reported this Thursday (March 17). When presenting a balance of the actions of the State against the crimes [committed against] reporters, the Undersecretary of Security, Ricardo Mejía, said the government had documented six […]
Mexico’s government on March 16 attributed impunity in the cases of murdered journalists -seven so far this year- to the country’s prosecutors. It recalled that prosecutors are the ones responsible for investigating those cases, rather than the protection mechanisms for journalists. 'Things can't go on like this and there have to be changes. Things have […]
"[Mexican] journalist Armando Linares was murdered this Tuesday [March 15] in Zitácuaro, in the state of Michoacán, as reported by the State Prosecutor's Office. The attack occurred in the afternoon (local time) 'at a private address,' according to a report from the public prosecutor. The reporter, director of the Monitor Michoacán portal, had denounced threats […]
"The Parliament of the European Union (EU) asked Mexico this Thursday, Mach 10, to ensure 'the protection' of journalists and human rights defenders, following the murder of seven reporters so far this year. This provoked a strong reaction from this Latin American government accusing the institution of joining a coup strategy. (...) The Parliament's resolution, which […]
"Since Andrés Manuel López Obrador assumed the presidency in Dec. 2018, 55 journalists have been murdered in Mexico, which exceeds the data recorded in the middle of the six-year term of both Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto. According to reports from the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), 252 press workers have been executed from […]
"This week, both the office and home of Jesús Humberto González Deleija, photojournalist for El Mañana de Reynosa and recently host of the program La Comezón de la Raza, were raided by unknown individuals in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. The journalist, who has been the victim of aggressions both by authorities and by alleged members of organized […]
"More than 100 independent journalists attended the National Meeting of Journalists on Saturday (March 5, 2022) in the Mexican city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, state of Chiapas (southeast). They demanded a stop to the attacks [against journalists] and pointed out that many of these involve government officials. […] Al the meeting, they also […]
"Journalist Juan Carlos Muñiz, a contributor to the newspaper Testigo Minero, was murdered this Friday, March, 4, in the municipality of Fresnillo, Zacatecas. According to the media outlet, Juan Carlos was known in the area as Rigoberto or el TX and had collaborated for years with Testigo Minero and other media, and at the same […]
"The investigation and the 'live' storytelling of the great challenges facing Ibero-America and the world such as violence, the environmental struggle, political corruption, social rights or cultural integration, are the focus of the six works awarded this Wednesday, March 3 with the International King of Spain Journalism Awards 2022. The winners, from a total of […]