Mexican journalist and human rights activist Lydia Cacho, 48, was threatened twice last month, according to news reports. On 14 June, the foundation which carries her name, based in Madrid, received an email warning Cacho to “keep her mouth shut” or she would be killed. Only three days later she received an anonymous phone call […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) urges the authorities to conduct a transparent investigation into recent attacks against, and harassment of, journalists in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in the southern part of the country. Jacobo Elnecavé Luttman, 31, has been in critical condition for almost three weeks after six individuals brutally beat him on 19 […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the murder of a Mexican reporter who was found dead Tuesday after having been missing for nearly three months. Authorities discovered the body of journalist Noel López Olguín, who disappeared on 8 March, buried in a clandestine grave in the city of Chinameca in the Gulf coast state […]

Two Mexican journalists have been killed in Monterrey in the northern state of Nuevo León in a murder that appears to be tied to organized crime. José Luis “La Gata” Cerda Meléndez, 33, host of the “El Club” program on national TV channel Televisa, and Luis Emanuel Ruíz Carrillo, 20, a reporter for daily “La […]