"[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 […]
"The Federation of Journalists Associations of Spain (FAPE, by its Spanish acronym) sent a letter to Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, urging him to open truly effective dialogue and negotiations to put an end to the strike carried out by the workers of the Mexican State News Agency (Notimex). The labor conflict is two […]
"Jorge Luis Camero Zazueta, nicknamed El Choche, was shot to death on Thursday, Feb. 24, in the Libertad neighborhood in Sonora. The journalist worked for the portal El Informativo and until two weeks ago he worked as private secretary to Mayor Luis Fuentes Aguilar at the Empalme City Hall. (...) According to local media, the […]
"Mexican television host and model Michelle Pérez Tadeo, known as Michelle Simon, was found dead this Tuesday, Feb. 22 in Santo Tomás Ajusco, in the Tlalpan district (in the southern part of Mexico City), as reported by authorities. The Prosecutor's Office of Mexico City is already investigating the case as a femicide although it does […]
"In Tijuana, epicenter of the murders of journalists in recent weeks and one of the most complicated places to practice reporting in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador shared the judicial process being followed on some of the crimes against journalists. [...] In most of the reported cases, the gunmen who fired the shots have […]
"'And now, who's next?... We no longer want to come and bury another colleague. We are fed up with speeches, we demand a law that protects us. It is not fair to take our lives for denouncing corruption,' Oaxaca Isthmus journalist Rodolfo Canseco said. Family, friends and colleagues said goodbye on Feb. 13 at the […]