“‘Pío López Obrador, brother of the President of the Republic, has decided to report me to the Attorney General's Office [FGR, for its acronym in Spanish]. He is asking for 12 years in prison for me, and, furthermore, he calls himself a victim, after we at LatinUs revealed the two videos in which he appears […]
"Federal authorities recognized that the spiral of violence in Iguala and the threatening of the local press is due to the division of the criminal group Guerreros Unidos, suspected of the disappearance of 43 college students in 2014." Read original article (in Spanish)
“An influencer from Tijuana, Baja California, named Mariano Soto, was shot and killed this Sunday afternoon while he was driving in his car. The attack was carried out by people in a gray Cadillac. They hit the victim in the chest and later fled. Through his page Tijuana sin Censura (Tijuana Uncensored), Soto denounced a […]
"The Special Prosecutor's Office for Crimes committed against Freedom of Expression (Feadle) of Mexico requested this Tuesday a sentence of 50 years in prison for one of those accused of the murder of journalist Javier Valdez, which occurred on May 15, 2017 . In a hearing held after a 20-month delay, Feadle formalized its accusation […]
“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 […]