With these figures, Mexico remains at the top, for the fourth year in a row, on the list of the most dangerous countries for practicing the profession, even ahead of countries at war such as Ukraine (eight cases) or Yemen (three cases).
“The list of journalists murdered in Mexico is horrifying and seems to be inexorably lengthening without the federal government or local authorities taking charge of the scale of the problem, or taking courageous decisions,” laments the director of the Office of Reporters Without Borders (RSF). ) in Latin America, Emmanuel Colombie.
Since the beginning of the mandate of the president of the country, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador In December 2018, RSF registered at least 36 murders of journalists and two disappearancesthose of Jorge Molotzin Centlal Y Pablo Felipe Romero Chavezin 2021, in the state of Sonora (in the northwest of the country, on the border with the United States).
The NGO clarifies that the majority of these murders are concentrated in the states that are especially “gangrenized” by the corruption and the organized crime: Michoacan (southwest), and sound Y Veracruz (southeast), with five cases each. In the vast majority of these 38 cases, “impunity is almost total,” laments RSF.
Fredid Román, the last crime in a long list
The latest case took place this past Monday, when the journalist Fred Roman was executed in Chilpancingocapital of the state of Warrior (South of the country). Roman had just left his home in his vehicle when two individuals on a motorcycle opened fire on him before fleeing.
Román, editor of the local newspaper ‘Vértice’ and highly critical of the Guerrero government and the corruption of local authorities, died on the spot. His nephew publicly pointed out that the local criminal gang of the squirrelswho, according to him, had threatened him with death several times.
Román’s son was executed less than two months earlier, and the Guerrero Prosecutor’s Office is studying the relationship between the two cases.
Román thus became the fourth journalist assassinated since the beginning of August, after Ernesto Mendez, Juan Arjon Lopez Y Alan Gonzalezwhose names sadly add to those of Jose Luis Gamboa sands, Alfonso Margarito Martinez Esquivel, Lourdes Maldonado Lopez, Robert Toledo, Heber Lopez, Jorge Luis Camero Zazueta, Juan Carlos Muniz, Armando Linares Lopez, Luis Enrique Ramirez Y Anthony of the Cross.
Source: Ambito
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