Less than three weeks after two journalists – a man and his wife – were gunned down in an Internet café in Mexico, a further two reporters have been killed, edging Mexico past Honduras as the world’s most dangerous country for journalists so far in 2010. Marco Aurelio Martinez Tijerina of Montemorelos in Nuevo Leon […]

Mexican journalists in the drug-violence-wracked city of Ciudad Juarez called on Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Tuesday 12 October to take action against the climate of impunity shrouding attacks on journalists, joining calls made by freedom of expression groups last month. In an open letter to the president, who was visiting the northern Mexican city, […]

A year ago today, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military-backed coup after attempting to hold a referendum on removing the constitutional one-term limit to his presidency.  Since the coup and the subsequent election of Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo Sosa as president in November, journalists have been murdered in increasing numbers – and with […]

Honduran radio reporter Israel Zelaya Diaz was shot dead yesterday, becoming the ninth journalist killed in Honduras this year. According to the Associated Press, national police say gunmen kidnapped the veteran journalist in the northern city of San Pedro Sula on Tuesday. His body was found hours later in a sugar cane plantation near the […]