The International Press Institute (IPI) today voiced concern over a Mexican radio station’s firing of a journalist after she said on air that Mexican President Felipe Calderon should respond to allegations that he is an alcoholic. Well-known radio and TV journalist Carmen Aristegui was fired by MVS radio on Monday after she refused to apologize […]

A car bomb exploded outside the offices of Televisa, Mexico’s largest media organization, in the early hours of Friday, local time.  The attack happened in the capital of Tamaulipas state, Ciudad Victoria, about 220 miles south of the Texas border. Although no one was injured in the blast, according to Carlos Loret de Mola, host […]

Two offices belonging to Mexico’s largest media organization, Televisa, were attacked with explosives at the weekend, a week after thousands of journalists marched silently through Mexico City, the capital, to protest against the violence, intimidation and harassment journalists face in the Central American country. The first of the two attacks happened in the northern border […]

Federal police in Mexico have arrested three suspected drug cartel members allegedly involved in the kidnapping of three Mexican journalists last, news reports said today. According to the Associated Press, the suspects, aged 23, 25, and 33, allegedly worked for the Sinaloa drug cartel in the city of Gomez Palacio in the Northern Mexican state […]