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Watchdog: Murder of Sixth Journalist in Mexico This Year Makes it âThe Worldâs Deadliest Country for the Mediaâ
May 17, 2017 â The murder of a journalist Monday in Mexico, the sixth this year â amid an uptick in highly publicized violence â has prompted outrage by international groups and promises by the countryâs president to increase armed protection for members of the press.
Watchdog: Murder of Sixth Journalist in Mexico This Year Makes it âThe Worldâs Deadliest Country for the Mediaâ
May 17, 2017 â The murder of a journalist Monday in Mexico, the sixth this year â amid an uptick in highly publicized violence â has prompted outrage by international groups and promises by the countryâs president to increase armed protection for members of the press.
Javier Valdez CĂĄrdenas, a prominent author and reporter who specialized in covering narcotics violence and corruption, was hauled out his car and shot to death by masked men in CuliacĂĄn in the State of Sinaloa, according to media reports. âWe are appalled by this shocking murder,â said Emmanuel ColombiĂ©, the head of Reporters Without Bordersâ Latin America desk. âWe urge the local and national authorities to identify and arrest those responsible without delay.â
Reporters Without Borders said a sixth journalist murder this year makes Mexico âthe worldâs deadliest country for the media.â âBeing a journalist in Mexico seems more like a death sentence than a profession,â Tania Reneaum, director of Amnesty International Mexico, said in a statement. âThe continuing bloodshed that the authorities prefer to ignore has created a deep void that is damaging the right to freedom of expression in the country.â UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova urged Mexican authorities to investigate and ensure the killing did not go unpunished.
In another incident, the wife and son of the owner of a weekly publication in the state of Jalisco were also attacked by gunmen on Monday, resulting in the sonâs death, the Mexico City daily El Universal reported. President Enrique Peña Nieto promised Wednesday to improve measures to provide journalists and human rights activists with security protection. He noted that 598 people are currently in a protection program, including 196 journalists. The murder of journalists in Mexico is âa disaster zone,â Erubiel Tirado, coordinator of the national security, democracy and human rights program at Iberoamerican University in Mexico City, told CNSNews.com. âLiberty of expression is a key element of democracy and Mexico is unable to ensure freedom of expression. Itâs an ineffective democracy.â
For more than a decade, Tirado said, Mexico has faced an internal explosion of violence promulgated by drug cartels and criminal gangs that has been worsened by collusion of government officials with organized crime at all levels. âA good deal of business leaders and political leaders would have to be jailed to really deal with the problem,â he said. âThere is no consequence for acts of corruption, and corruption is structural in Mexico.â Tirado charged that the army is involved in the problem as well, conceding territory to local officials who then hand the territory over to drug cartels.
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