The International Press Institute (IPI) called on Mexican federal authorities to ensure the safe return of a Mexican journalist kidnapped Wednesday morning. Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz, a crime reporter for the newspapers NotiSUR and Liberal del Sur was seized by a group of armed assailants after dropping his children off at school in Coatzacoalcos, […]

Mexico’s response to an armed attack on the home of one of its most-esteemed investigative journalists will indicate how seriously the country’s government takes journalist safety, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. According to reports, a group of approximately 10 armed assailants stormed the residence of Anabel Hernández in Mexico State on Dec. 21, […]

A Mexican editor’s ongoing hunger strike highlights the urgent need for the federal government to regulate the distribution of official advertising, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Ildefonso Chávez, editor of the Chihuahua-based El Pueblo began his strike on Dec. 2, alleging that the Chihuahua state government refuses to pay a bill for nearly […]

A bad joke. That’s how one prominent Mexican editor described to me the trial of Jorge Antonio Hernández, also known as “El Silva”, who was sentenced this April to 38 years and two months in prison for the murder of an esteemed investigative reporter, Regina Martínez Pérez, in the state of Veracruz, allegedly during a […]