" Mexican journalist Francisco Canul Cauich, who was one of the first people to report and make public the case of Víctoria Salazar, the woman killed by police in Tulum, Quintana Roo, denounced that his house was raided. The events occurred on April 4, when the journalist was away from his home. He denounced that […]
"[Mexican] President Andrés Manuel López Obrador accused Article 19, a civil society organization that in 2009 began to keep a record of attacks on freedom of expression in Mexico, of being financed by foreign companies, and even by the U.S. State Department. 'That body is supported from overseas, all the people who have to do […]
"The State Attorney General's Office reported this Friday [March 27] the disappearance of Pablo Felipe Romero Chávez, a radio journalist working on the police beat. According to the version of the events, it was on March 25 when relatives and colleagues lost communication with him, which is why they filed a complaint with the public […]
"[Jorge Molontzín Centlal] a reporter with the magazine Confidencial, went missing on March 10 while he was driving near the municipality of Santa Ana, in the northern state of Sonora, according to a statement published by Confidencial on March 17. Confidencial editor José Alfredo Gaston Gastelum told CPJ in a phone interview that he last […]
"On March 2, at about 6:15 p.m., a sport utility vehicle attempted to force Amaro off the road while he was driving with his son in the municipality of Tetla de la Solidaridad, in Tlaxcala state, east of Mexico City, the journalist told CPJ in a phone interview. He said the car attempted to crash […]
The One Free Press Coalition, which publishes a monthly list of the "10 Most Urgent" press freedom cases around the world, focused on women journalists for March 2021 in anticipation of International Women's Day (March 8). On its list were journalists from Mexico and Guatemala. Among those on the list is Mexican columnist and reporter […]
"On Feb. 3, in Ocotlán, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, two unidentified men in a car pulled up to a plot of land where [Edgar Leyva Mendoza], his sister, and his aunt were working, and asked for the journalist; when his aunt and sister approached the vehicle, the men opened fire, according to […]
“Each of the cases was exposed thanks to Mexico’s freedom of information system, often ranked among the world’s most effective. Created in 2002, it has allowed journalists and researchers to wrest documents from a government long known for opacity. The system has been ‘one of the most important democratic advances in Mexico’ since the end […]
“The National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI, for its acronym in Spanish) instructed the Attorney General of the Republic [of Mexico] to provide the public version of the investigation folder for the homicide of journalist Regina Martínez, who was assassinated on April 28, 2012, when she was a […]
"As in the rest of the world, trust in news in Latin America has declined in recent years. But survey data from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico show that trust levels vary significantly from one national context to another and can relate to a variety of phenomena, from the shortcomings of journalism itself to social unrest […]
“Representatives of the Attorney General's Office detained the former governor of Puebla, Mario Marín, at an address in Acapulco, Guerrero. [...] The arrest warrant against the former governor is for the alleged crime of torture to the detriment of journalist Lydia Cacho and was issued by the first Unitary Court in Quintana Roo, with which […]
"Mexican fact-checkers say consistency, transparency and humility helped them maintain credibility with their audience after executive power shifted in their country in 2018. As America prepares for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, Jorge Ramis, audience editor at the Mexican fact-checking organization Animal Político, said U.S. fact-checkers should build on their work fact-checking the Trump […]