Mexico

Two unidentified men beat and stabbed Luis Pablo Guardado Negrete, deputy director of the local daily Noticias de la Bahía, on Saturday afternoon inside his office in the western Mexican state of Nayarit. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the local authorities to investigate the attack and bring all those responsible to justice. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, two men arrived at the...

Two unidentified men beat and stabbed Luis Pablo Guardado Negrete, deputy director of the local daily Noticias de la Bahía, on Saturday afternoon inside his office in the western Mexican state of Nayarit. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the local authorities to investigate the attack and bring all those responsible to justice. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, two men arrived at the...

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has accused the Guanajuato state government in Mexico of discrimination against the newspapers "a.m." and "Correo" in its placement of official advertising, in addition to insulting them and refusing to provide them with information. The state government's actions were seen as revenge for the papers' critical editorial stance. In a letter to Guanajuato...

Fátima Monterrosa, an investigative journalist for the Mexican magazine Emeequis, has been subjected to threats after publishing an article entitled "A Viceroyalty Named Tlaxcala". The article exposed a series of anomalies in the administration of the state government of Tlaxcala. The work of Monterrosa is well known in the journalistic community in Mexico. She has worked as a press correspondent...

Mexican police botched the murder investigation of a journalist working near the US border in 2004 by torturing suspects and mishandling evidence, the country's human's rights commission said, according to a Reuters report. Roberto Mora, editorial director of El Manana newspaper in Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Laredo, Texas, regularly wrote columns about drug trafficking and corrupt...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) Monday called for light to be shed on a murder attempt against Aristeo Abundis Hernández, editor of the weekly Frente y Vuelta, in Panuco, Veracruz state in eastern Mexico who was shot at as he was driving home. It also condemned a threat against the daily El Correo de Tabasco and its editor Juan Padilla Herrera in which a severed human head—a typical drug-gang...

Mexico is not at war. It is a democracy. And yet it is one of the world's most dangerous countries for the press. Twenty-one journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, seven of them in direct reprisal for their work. Since 2005, seven others have gone missing. Mexico ranks 10th on CPJ's impunity index, along with such war-ravaged countries as Iraq, Somalia, and Sierra Leone. The impact of

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced serious concern after it was confirmed that Jesús Lemus Barajas, editor of the daily El Tiempo, in La Piedad, Michoacán state in south-west Mexico, is being held in preventive custody in a drugs case. Paris-based RSF on Tuesday called on the federal authorities to produce clear and compelling reasons for his detention and expressed anxiety that he had...

The Office of the Special Prosecutor for Crimes Against Journalists is looking into the killing of two radio journalists from the Triqui indigenous community in Oaxaca. This welcome development inspires hope that impunity will not prevail in this case, unlike the way it has in the murders of so many other journalists in Mexico, ARTICLE 19 and Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social (CENCOS) have...

The Coahuila State Congress in Mexico has approved amendments classifying the killing of people in retaliation for their journalism as a particularly serious crime, comparable to aggravated homicide. This means that such killings will now be considered very serious and those responsible will face sentences of up to 60 years in prison, ARTICLE 19 has reported. In order to implement the mechanisms...