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In Mexico, 'narcopolitics' is a deadly mix for journalists covering crime and politics

19 December 2018
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Narcopolitics means that the interests of public officials and organized crime overlap. As such, it becomes an enormous risk for journalists in Mexico who report on crime and corruption.

Mexico Attacks

Mexican journalist Alejandro Márquez Jiménez shot dead in Nayarit

CPJ urges Mexican authorities to immediately undertake a credible and rigorous investigation into the killing of journalist Alejandro Márquez Jiménez, whose body was found on December 1 near Tepic.

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)‎11 December 2018

Mexico Attacks Digital Rights

CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering the migrant caravan in Mexico

Thousands of migrants that are part of a caravan that departed San Pedro Sula in Honduras for the U.S. on 13 October 2018, are currently in southern Mexico. As the caravan attempts to cross Mexico, the risk increases for any journalists accompanying it.

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)‎29 October 2018

Mexico Impunity Attacks

Mexico urged to continue funding journalist protection mechanism

CPJ is deeply concerned about the imminent gap in financing that threatens the operation of the Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists.

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)‎ 6 September 2018

Latest from Mexico

Mexico's new government must confront precarious state of freedom of expression amidst extreme violence

‎ José Peralta for IFEX

Mexico Impunity Attacks Gender 27 August 2018
Journalist José Guadalupe Chan Dzib shot dead in Mexico

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Mexico Attacks 8 July 2018
Alarming details about election-related violence against journalists in Mexico

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Mexico Attacks 26 June 2018
CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering elections in Mexico

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Mexico Attacks Digital Rights 25 June 2018
Publications in Mexico City, Guerrero state robbed

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Mexico Attacks 30 April 2018
Leobardo Vázquez Atzin is third journalist to be killed in Mexico this year

‎ Inter American Press Association

Mexico Attacks 26 March 2018
Freelance journalist Carlos Domínguez killed in Mexico

‎ Inter American Press Association

Mexico Attacks 17 January 2018
Mexico most deadly country for journalists in 2017

‎ International Press Institute (IPI)

Mexico International Impunity Attacks 24 December 2017
Journalist Edgar Daniel Esqueda found dead with bullet wounds in San Luis Potosí

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Mexico Attacks 10 October 2017
Investigative journalism in a dangerous country: A lecture by Adela Navarro

‎ PEN Canada

Mexico Impunity Attacks 26 September 2017
Access to information: Women transforming their communities

‎ José Peralta for IFEX

Mexico Access to Information Gender 20 September 2017
IAPA expresses concern over recent murders of journalists in Honduras, Mexico

‎ Inter American Press Association

Mexico Impunity Attacks Honduras 19 September 2017
Carmen Aristegui: Fired up

‎ IFEX

Mexico Digital Rights 30 August 2017
Lydia Cacho: Standing up for victims of sexual abuse

‎ IFEX

Mexico Attacks Gender 2 August 2017
Journalists receive death threats in Mexican state of Quintana Roo

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Mexico Attacks 24 July 2017
Peña Nieto: Your country has become the world's deadliest for journalists in 2017, even deadlier than Syria

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mexico Impunity Attacks 10 July 2017
Salvador Adame's body found in Michoacán

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mexico Attacks 4 July 2017
IFEX-ALC condemns alarming levels of violence against journalists in Mexico

‎ IFEX América Latina y el Caribe

Mexico 25 May 2017
Javier Valdez: Chronicle of a death foretold?

‎ José Peralta for IFEX

Mexico Impunity 18 May 2017
Fourth journalist murdered this year in Mexico; threats continue

‎ ARTICLE 19

Mexico Attacks 18 April 2017
Spike in journalist killings in Mexico spurs international calls for justice

‎ ARTICLE 19

Mexico Impunity 13 April 2017
Month of the dead

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Mexico Attacks 3 April 2017
Mexican newspaper editor shot and wounded in Veracruz

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Mexico Attacks 30 March 2017
Journalist who covered politics and security is murdered in Chihuahua

‎ ARTICLE 19

Mexico Impunity Attacks 27 March 2017
Journalist assassinated in Veracruz, bringing total to 22 in the state

‎ ARTICLE 19

Mexico Attacks 21 March 2017
Journalists face intimidation in Colombia and Mexico, online portal subjected to cyber attack in Venezuela

‎ Inter American Press Association

Mexico Colombia Venezuela Digital Rights Attacks 14 March 2017

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Freedom on the Net 2017: Mexico

A series of revelations renewed concerns about illegal surveillance practices in the country, as spying software sold to the government abusively targeted human rights lawyers, journalists, and activists

Freedom House 16 November 2017
Freedom of the Press 2017: Mexico

Article 19, counted 11 murders of journalists in possible connection with their work for the year, and a total of 100 such killings since 2000.

Freedom House 27 April 2017
Libertades de resistencia. Libertad de expresión y derecho a la información en México 2016

Cuando hablamos de libertades en este in- forme no nos referimos solamente a valo- res abstractos que por lo general se nos ha dicho que debemos defender. Más bien, lo que narramos son historias de trabajo que se desenvuelven en el día a día y que están resistiendo a esas condiciones permanentes de marginación, opacidad y agresión.

ARTICLE 19 6 March 2017