The Committee to Protect Journalists calls Mexico “the deadliest country for journalists in the Western hemisphere.”
Crosses with the names of 14 journalists and human rights defenders who have been killed in the three months since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office stand in front of the National Palace, with the Metropolitan Cathedral behind, in Mexico City's main square on Feb. 22, 2019.
According to CPJ data, 48 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 1992, including 45 who were targeted for murder. Of those cases, 40 were murdered with impunity, the watchdog group says. In March, Mexican media reported that journalist Omar Iván Camacho was found dead in Sinaloa state. Just a few days earlier, radio journalist Santiago Barroso was shot dead in his home in northern Mexico. According to the CPJ, the state’s attorney general said at the time that he appeared to have been targeted because of his work as a journalist.
It is a cruel irony that another journalist was killed in Mexico on the eve of World Press Freedom Day — a day intended to acknowledge the difficult circumstances journalists face and to honor those who have been killed or jailed because of their work.
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