Search

The article discusses about the issue of increase in violence toward journalists covering policing, organized crime, and political corruption in Mexico. Topics discussed include government's responsibility to protect journalists against violence and crime, disrupt investigations of the crime due to corruption and political aspects of murder of journalists.

The article focuses on the issue of the freedom the press in Mexico. Topics discussed include violence against journalists covering crime, drug cartels, and their nexus with local politics, shrinking budgets for resources for investigative reporting that promote accountability and corruption by public officials.

Discusses information on freedom of the press in Mexico. Relationship of elites and the press in Mexico; Censorship of the press in Mexico; Effect of the withdrawal of government advertisement in newspapers in Mexico.

The article offers the author's insights on the effort against silence and violence in the journalism in Mexico. Topics include the protest for the disappearance of Salvador Adame, colleague from the newspaper "La Voz de Tierra Caliente," murder of journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, and support to the state laws to protect journalists in the country.