by jpitney | Mar 4, 2023 | Democracy, Mexico
Nathan Gardels at Noema: Populists who fashion themselves as tribunes of the people have never met institutional checks and balances they can happily abide. Seeing themselves and their parties as embodiments of the majority will, any constraint on their power is...
by jpitney | Dec 10, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Mexico, Ukraine
From the International Federation of Journalists: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today renewed its call on the international community for concrete action to protect the safety and freedoms of journalists as it recorded a spike in the numbers of...
by jpitney | Aug 24, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Mexico
AP: A journalist who ran an online local news program was shot to death Monday in southern Mexico, making him the 15th media worker killed so far this year nationwide. Prosecutors in the southern state of Guerrero said Monday that Fredid Román was gunned down in the...
by jpitney | Jun 28, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Mexico
by jpitney | Jun 18, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Mexico
Matt Rivers at CNN: Stumbling upon a murder scene is not uncommon in Tijuana. In a country plagued by homicide, the city stands out. There have been more than 800 homicides registered so far this year alone, according to city officials — and that’s only...
by jpitney | May 10, 2022 | Crime, Journalism, Journalists, Mexico
AP reports: Just as Mexican journalists prepared to protest the killing of a journalist last week, word came Monday that two more were shot to death in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, raising to 11 the number of such killings in the country this year. The Veracruz...
