A delegation from the International Press Institute (IPI) and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) this week examined Mexican government measures to ensure greater safety of journalists, along with strategies adopted by media and journalists to continue reporting from highly dangerous parts of the country. The delegation met with a wide variety […]

Police in the Mexican state of Michoacán over the weekend discovered the dismembered body of a missing photojournalist said to have covered organised crime for a local newspaper. An inside source at the newspaper, Diario de Zamora, told AFP that Arturo Barajas, 46, had worked sensitive beats on a contractual basis. “When there were major […]

As Enrique Peña Nieto prepares to assume the Mexican presidency, his public focus has been on scaling back the drug cartel-related violence in the country. Meanwhile, at least four incidents involving journalists being assaulted, abducted, threatened, or arrested have occurred since Mexico’s July 1 election, continuing the nation’s abysmal record of protecting its journalists and […]

Two journalists were reported missing this week in Latin America: one in Mexico and one in Colombia. Miguel Morales Estrada, who works as a photojournalist for the daily Diario de Poza Rica and as a freelancer for the newspaper Tribuna Papanteca in Papantla in the State of Veracruz, Mexico, was last seen Thursday in Veracruz. […]