The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed concern today about missing Mexican journalist Moisés Sánchez Cerezo, who disappeared last week in Medellín de Bravo, Veracruz. Sánchez, who reported on corruption among local officials and drug-related violence in the area, has been missing since the evening of Jan. 2, when his family reported that nine armed men […]

Jesús Antonio Gamboa Urías, a journalist and editor of the weekly online news site Nueva Prensa, was found dead last week in the north-western state of Sinaloa, considered one of Mexico’s most violent regions. The remains of Gamboa Urías, 39, were found riddled with gunshots in a rural village near the city of Los Mochis, […]

In July of this year, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law a new regulatory framework for the country’s telecommunications sector (Ley de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión, “Broadcasting and Telecommunciations Act”). The legislation was designed to put into practice a 2013 constitutional reform that, according to the Mexican government, aimed to increase competition in a historically […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called for a full and independent investigation into the death of Mexican journalist Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz, whose body was found Tuesday in an unmarked grave near Las Choapas, Veracruz state. Jiménez, a crime reporter for the newspapers NotiSUR and Liberal del Sur, had been abducted by armed assailants […]