A Killed Journalist, and the Latest Blow to Press Freedom in Mexico Monica Campbell - PRI's The World | |
go to original February 11, 2016 |
At a museum in Mexico City, an exhibit memoralizes Mexico's killed and disappeared journalists. The displays names 89 journalists who have been killed between 2005 and 2015. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters)
She was 27, a mother of two, and this week she became the latest journalist murdered in Mexico, continuing a dark story of crimes against the press in a country grappling with entrenched cartel power.
Early Monday morning, a group of armed men reportedly wearing military uniforms dragged Anabel Flores Salazar, a reporter in the Mexican Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, from her home near the city of Orizaba. They claimed to have an arrest warrant, but it is unknown for what. After being carried off, her family tried to find her, but couldn’t, until she was found dead alongside a highway in the neighboring state of Puebla. She was bound with a plastic bag over her head.
For years, Mexico has ranked as one of the world’s most dangerous places to report, as reporters are put in the crosshairs of powerful criminal groups. They also join those who face similar danger: human rights advocates, lawyers and average Mexicans who happen to get caught in the line of fire. But over the past decade, Veracruz has become particularly toxic. Flores Salazar’s death adds to a growing list of journalists killed in the state, with at least six reporters killed there since 2011 because of their work, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The CPJ adds that it is investigating the deaths of another seven journalists in Veracruz, along with several more who have gone missing.
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Related: Journalists Blame Mexican Authorities for Reporters’ Deaths in Veracruz (Latin American Herald Tribune)
Related: UNESCO Condemns Murders of Journalists in Mexico (teleSUR)
Related: Over 2,000 Journalists Killed Worldwide in 25 Years; Mexico Third Deadliest Country (Knight Center for Journalism)
Related: Crime Reporter’s Brutal Murder in Mexico Highlights Need for Protection (Amnesty International)
Related: NGO: At Least 2 Mexican Journalists Disappear Every Year (teleSUR)
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