“Griselda Triana presents the call for the Javier Valdez Cárdenas award for Mexican and foreign journalists living in the country, which will be open until February 2021. Journalists are invited to send their investigative projects related to organized crime, political corruption, victims of violence, abuse of power, questionable behavior of the armed forces and social […]
“With deep scars from the deaths of 27 colleagues and six more disappeared in 15 years, journalists from the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz today face new threats to their person and the right to inform, as reflected in the murder and beheading of Julio Valdivia. Coverage of intense shootings is slowly being left behind. […]
"The trial against Juan Carlos Moreno Ochoa “El Larry”, the co-perpetrator of the homicide of Miroslava Breach Velducea, the journalist and correspondent of La Jornada, and the only one detained for the crime, will begin its final phase this Tuesday, five months after the court declared him guilty, but received no sentence because the hearing […]
"Armed men shot at the office of the newspaper Diario de Iguala, Tuesday morning. This attack occured two days after the killing of reporter Pablo Morrugares Parraguirre. According to the police report, around 11 a.m., armed men shot the building's facade and gate." Read original article (Spanish)
"The State Attorney General arrested Omar Alfredo A.O. alias 'El Fredy,' another priority objective for the authorities of the three levels of government, who is linked to at least 50 homicides that occurred in the cities of Juárez and Chihuahua ... 'El Fredy' is credited with orchestrating an assault armed against one of his 'opponents,' […]
"María Fernanda de Luna, daughter of the journalist María Elena Ferral, murdered last March in the Mexican state of Veracruz (east), denounced this Sunday that she was the victim of an armed attack, from which she was unharmed. 'Today at 10:40 in the morning (15:00 GMT), I was the victim of an attack in which […]
"A federal judge convicted Juan Carlos Moreno Ochoa, El Larry or El WA, of being a co-participant in the murder of journalist Miroslava Breach Velducea, correspondent for La Jornada in Chihuahua, on March 23, 2017. El Larry was arrested in December 2017 by elements of the Federal Police in an operation carried out in Etchojoa, […]
"Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui denounced this Wednesday that she suffered a 'virulent' attack on social networks directed against her and her son, due to her work as a journalist. In addition, due to the attacks against her person and her family, the communicator had to clarify issues in her personal life." Read original article (Spanish)