They Silenced Journalists, they won't silence the stories.
December 6, 2020 12:32 PM   Subscribe

Murder in Mexico: journalists caught in the crosshairs. The 2012 killing of Regina Martínez, who was investigating links between organised crime and politics, began a wave of violence in the most dangerous country to be a reporter. The Forbidden Stories project, a network of journalists whose mission is to continue and publish the work of other journalists facing threats, prison, or murder and whose goal is to keep their stories alive and to make sure a maximum number of people have access to uncensored news on such crucial topics as the environment, health, human rights, or corruption.
posted by adamvasco (8 comments total) 26 users marked this as a favorite
 
my classmate mando was killed in mexico city in 2012 while working as an intern for the AP after reporting on a corruption case. he was a sweet kid and a talented writer.

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posted by dismas at 5:50 PM on December 6, 2020 [6 favorites]


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posted by limeonaire at 8:14 PM on December 6, 2020


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Editor in Chief of major Mexican magazine
Proceso targeted with NSO's Pegasus spyware while working on the Panama Papers.
Many journalists targeted with Pegasus in Mexico, including some family members too. Like Carmen's teenage son. Griselda was targeted after her partner, journalist Javier Valdez was murdered.
posted by adamvasco at 12:32 PM on December 7, 2020


Related, from Bellingcat:

(1) The Leads Not Investigated In The Miroslava Breach Murder
Over the past 10 years, at least 82 journalists have been killed in Mexico for exercising their profession. This gruesome death toll makes Mexico one of the most dangerous countries for journalists in the world. One victim of this violence was Miroslava Breach, an investigative journalist who had been reporting on “narco-politicians”, members of drug cartels who infiltrate the country’s political life to consolidate their control. On the 23rd of March 2017, Breach was shot dead in cold-blood outside her home. Since then, the investigation into her death has left loose ends. El Colectivo 23 de marzo, a group of journalists working in Mexico, in collaboration with international journalism organizations Forbidden Stories, Bellingcat, and the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP), joined forces to reveal what authorities have investigated and what not regarding this crime that must not be left unpunished.
(2) The Five Deaths in the Murder of Miroslava Breach

(3) Miroslava: The Journalist Who Refused to be Complicit
posted by Ahmad Khani at 1:17 PM on December 7, 2020 [1 favorite]


Mexican journalist who wrote about crime found beheaded - "In 2019, about half of all murders of journalists around the world occurred in Mexico, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists."
posted by kliuless at 9:16 PM on December 7, 2020


Mexican photojournalist killed after taking photos of bodies along a road
Jaime Castaño Zacarías is ninth journalist killed in Mexico this year after he was pursued by gunmen.
posted by adamvasco at 5:11 PM on December 11, 2020




Murder in Malta
After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.
By Ben Taub, New Yorker.
posted by adamvasco at 3:07 PM on December 15, 2020


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