Journalist murders

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Granny says, "Dat's right - Mexico is ‘The World’s Deadliest Country for the Media’...

Watchdog: Murder of Sixth Journalist in Mexico This Year Makes it ‘The World’s Deadliest Country for the Media’
May 17, 2017 – The murder of a journalist Monday in Mexico, the sixth this year – amid an uptick in highly publicized violence – has prompted outrage by international groups and promises by the country’s president to increase armed protection for members of the press.

Javier Valdez Cárdenas, 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 Culiacán in the State of Sinaloa, according to media reports. “We are appalled by this shocking murder,” said Emmanuel Colombié, the head of Reporters Without Borders’ Latin America desk. “We urge the local and national authorities to identify and arrest those responsible without delay.”

Reporters Without Borders said a sixth journalist murder this year makes Mexico “the world’s deadliest country for the media.” “Being a journalist in Mexico seems more like a death sentence than a profession,” Tania Reneaum, director of Amnesty International Mexico, said in a statement. “The 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.” 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 son’s 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 “a disaster zone,” Erubiel Tirado, coordinator of the national security, democracy and human rights program at Iberoamerican University in Mexico City, told CNSNews.com. “Liberty of expression is a key element of democracy and Mexico is unable to ensure freedom of expression. It’s an ineffective democracy.”

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. “A good deal of business leaders and political leaders would have to be jailed to really deal with the problem,” he said. “There is no consequence for acts of corruption, and corruption is structural in Mexico.” 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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All driven by the insatiable appetite for drugs in the USA.

 

[Mousterian]

The War on Drugs. Just another proxy war promoted for the enrichment of arms manufacturers.

 

[Dale Smith]

Mexico is ‘The World’s Deadliest Country for the Media’...

Watchdog: Murder of Sixth Journalist in Mexico This Year Makes it ‘The World’s Deadliest Country for the Media’
May 17, 2017 – The murder of a journalist Monday in Mexico, the sixth this year – amid an uptick in highly publicized violence – has prompted outrage by international groups and promises by the country’s president to increase armed protection for members of the press.

Javier Valdez Cárdenas, 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 Culiacán in the State of Sinaloa, according to media reports. “We are appalled by this shocking murder,” said Emmanuel Colombié, the head of Reporters Without Borders’ Latin America desk. “We urge the local and national authorities to identify and arrest those responsible without delay.”

Reporters Without Borders said a sixth journalist murder this year makes Mexico “the world’s deadliest country for the media.” “Being a journalist in Mexico seems more like a death sentence than a profession,” Tania Reneaum, director of Amnesty International Mexico, said in a statement. “The 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.” 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 son’s 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 “a disaster zone,” Erubiel Tirado, coordinator of the national security, democracy and human rights program at Iberoamerican University in Mexico City, told CNSNews.com. “Liberty of expression is a key element of democracy and Mexico is unable to ensure freedom of expression. It’s an ineffective democracy.”

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. “A good deal of business leaders and political leaders would have to be jailed to really deal with the problem,” he said. “There is no consequence for acts of corruption, and corruption is structural in Mexico.” 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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Can't be possible because Mexico has strict gun laws!!!

 

[gipper]

Mexico is ‘The World’s Deadliest Country for the Media’...

Watchdog: Murder of Sixth Journalist in Mexico This Year Makes it ‘The World’s Deadliest Country for the Media’
May 17, 2017 – The murder of a journalist Monday in Mexico, the sixth this year – amid an uptick in highly publicized violence – has prompted outrage by international groups and promises by the country’s president to increase armed protection for members of the press.

Javier Valdez Cárdenas, 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 Culiacán in the State of Sinaloa, according to media reports. “We are appalled by this shocking murder,” said Emmanuel Colombié, the head of Reporters Without Borders’ Latin America desk. “We urge the local and national authorities to identify and arrest those responsible without delay.”

Reporters Without Borders said a sixth journalist murder this year makes Mexico “the world’s deadliest country for the media.” “Being a journalist in Mexico seems more like a death sentence than a profession,” Tania Reneaum, director of Amnesty International Mexico, said in a statement. “The 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.” 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 son’s 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 “a disaster zone,” Erubiel Tirado, coordinator of the national security, democracy and human rights program at Iberoamerican University in Mexico City, told CNSNews.com. “Liberty of expression is a key element of democracy and Mexico is unable to ensure freedom of expression. It’s an ineffective democracy.”

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. “A good deal of business leaders and political leaders would have to be jailed to really deal with the problem,” he said. “There is no consequence for acts of corruption, and corruption is structural in Mexico.” 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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Everyone wants to know what Granny says about this.

 

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Another journalist shot dead in Mexico...

Mexico journalist shot dead at Christmas celebration at son's school
Dec 19 2017 - A journalist was shot dead on Tuesday in the Mexican state of Veracruz as he attended a Christmas celebration at his son's school, the latest murder in the country's deadliest year on record for media workers.

Gumaro Perez, 35, who regularly wrote about security and drug trafficking, was shot at four times and killed in the Acayucan municipality, becoming the third journalist killed in the state, and Mexico’s twelfth, this year. Perez worked for Golfo Sur and Voz del Sur, among other media organizations. “We’re in shock, waiting for them to hand over the body and see what we’re going to do together with his family,” said journalists’ group Asociacion de Periodistas Independientes de Acayucan, to which Perez belonged.

A lone gunman entered Perez’s 6-year-old son’s classroom, where the Christmas celebration was being held, and fired at Perez, the group said, citing witnesses. Roberta Jacobson, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, condemned Perez’s death in a post on Twitter, writing that she was “outraged by the death of another brave journalist in Mexico.” “You don’t kill the truth by killing journalists,” she added.

At least 65 media workers were killed worldwide doing their jobs this year, including 50 professional journalists the organization Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday, adding that Mexico is one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist. Since 2000, at least 111 media workers have been killed in Mexico, with 38 deaths since Enrique Pena Nieto became president in December 2012, advocacy group Article 19 says.

Mexico journalist shot dead at Christmas celebration at son's school

 

[Marion Morrison]

Another journalist shot dead in Mexico...

Mexico journalist shot dead at Christmas celebration at son's school
Dec 19 2017 - A journalist was shot dead on Tuesday in the Mexican state of Veracruz as he attended a Christmas celebration at his son's school, the latest murder in the country's deadliest year on record for media workers.

Gumaro Perez, 35, who regularly wrote about security and drug trafficking, was shot at four times and killed in the Acayucan municipality, becoming the third journalist killed in the state, and Mexico’s twelfth, this year. Perez worked for Golfo Sur and Voz del Sur, among other media organizations. “We’re in shock, waiting for them to hand over the body and see what we’re going to do together with his family,” said journalists’ group Asociacion de Periodistas Independientes de Acayucan, to which Perez belonged.

A lone gunman entered Perez’s 6-year-old son’s classroom, where the Christmas celebration was being held, and fired at Perez, the group said, citing witnesses. Roberta Jacobson, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, condemned Perez’s death in a post on Twitter, writing that she was “outraged by the death of another brave journalist in Mexico.” “You don’t kill the truth by killing journalists,” she added.

At least 65 media workers were killed worldwide doing their jobs this year, including 50 professional journalists the organization Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday, adding that Mexico is one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist. Since 2000, at least 111 media workers have been killed in Mexico, with 38 deaths since Enrique Pena Nieto became president in December 2012, advocacy group Article 19 says.

Mexico journalist shot dead at Christmas celebration at son's school

Hey man, we should have an international journalist-exchange program with Mexico. If they have balls enough to go upagainst the Cartels, they'd be great! As a bonus, all the lying twats from here get to deal with Mexico.

 

[TheParser]

Everyone is, of course, appalled at the murders of journalists in the United States of Mexico, but we who live in the United States of America should be careful before we get on our high horse.

This year has seen more censorship in our country than in a long time.

People with politically incorrect views are being scrubbed from social media and the World Wide Web.

To the best of my knowledge, there has been no opposition to these moves, not even by the American Civil Liberties Union.