The spree of journalist murders showed no signs of easing in Mexico in 2010, with the killing last Thursday of daily Zócalo Saltillo reporter Valentín Valdés Espinosa in the country’s northeastern state of Coahuila. Unidentified assailants kidnapped, tortured and shot Espinosa several times, and then dumped his body outside a local motel along with a […]

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 […]