Mexico

Mexican radio reporter Marco Aurelio Martínez Tijerina was abducted on Friday by unidentified gunmen and found shot to death the next day in the city of Montemorelos, state of Nuevo León, according to local news reports. Martínez, 45, a reporter for the Montemorelos-based radio station XEDD La Tremenda, was picked up on Friday evening by unidentified assailants, according to the reports. Gunmen in...

Structural changes meant to broaden the authority of Mexico’s special prosecutor’s office to investigate crimes against journalists are still insufficient to address the grave free expression crisis in Mexico, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. The renamed special prosecutor’s office for crimes against freedom of expression will report directly to the attorney-general and will...

Husband-and-wife journalists Juan Francisco Rodríguez Ríos and María Elvira Hernández Galena were gunned down Monday in the Internet café they owned near their home in Coyuca de Benítez, in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. Their deaths bring the number of journalists murdered since the start of the year in Mexico to seven. Rodríguez was the local correspondent for two dailies, El Sol de...

A group of armed individuals fired Friday last on the Televisa Laguna station's broadcasting facilities in the city of Torreón, in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, according to Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social (CENCOS) and ARTICLE 19. The attack took place minutes after the facilities' workers left the building for lunch and several local media outlets have reported that more than 150...

Two journalists who went missing Tuesday after an ambush in Oaxaca state in southern Mexico were rescued late Thursday by local police, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Érika Ramírez and David Cilia, reporters with the national newsweekly Contralínea, were found Thursday night in a forest near the Hierba Santa River, the news agency EFE reported. The journalists were taken...

Two journalists accompanying a caravan of human rights activists in a tense and often violent indigenous area of Oaxaca state in southern Mexico were reported missing Tuesday after the convoy came under gunfire and two people were killed, press reports said. Érika Ramírez and David Cilia are the two missing reporters from the national newsweekly Contralínea, Zósimo Camacho, a senior editor with...

Mexican journalist Ramón Ángeles Zalpa, has been missing since Tuesday, according to his family and reports in the local press. Ángeles, a part-time correspondent for the newspaper Cambio de Michoacán in the municipality of Paracho, in western Michoacán, left home in his car around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, his son Romel Ángeles told the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The...

Mexican reporter Evaristo Pacheco Solís was found shot to death on Friday in the city of Chilpancingo, in the crime-ravaged state of Guerrero, the Committee to Protect Journalists said quoting news reports. Pacheco, 33, a reporter with the weekly Visión Informativa was shot several times with a small calibre pistol, and his body was left along the side of a rural road, according to local news...

There has been an alarming wave of drug-related violence in the Mexican city of Reynosa, near the Texas border, which is endangering the news media and causing widespread self-censorship, according to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). In the past two weeks, several journalists have been abducted and one reporter has died in unclear circumstances, according to press reports and CPJ interviews...

Jorge Ochoa Martínez, a Mexican editor and publisher in Guerrero state, died late Friday after being shot in the face, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said quoting local press reports. Ochoa was killed in the town of Ayutla de los Libres after leaving a birthday party for a local politician, a friend and a coworker told New York-based CPJ. A spokesperson for Guerrero’s governor told...