Protests Mark One Month Since Riodoce Journalist Javier Valdez’s Killing Sofia Miselem - Digital Journal | |
go to original June 15, 2017 |
A man protests against the murder of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez in Monterrey (Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP)
Mexican journalists will protest today to mark one month since the killing of their colleague Javier Valdez, a noted expert on drug trafficking whose murder looks a long way from being solved.
Valdez, 50, was shot a dozen times in broad daylight on May 15 outside the offices of Riodoce, the newspaper he founded in the violent western state of Sinaloa.
More than 100 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000. But the death of Valdez - a veteran crime reporter, award-winning author of several books and longtime contributor to AFP - proved to be a tipping point.
His killing drew international condemnation and calls for justice from Mexican journalists.
The surge of outrage forced President Enrique Pena Nieto to publicly address the issue of journalists' murders for the first time, vowing to reinforce protective measures and do more to bring those responsible to justice.
More than 90 percent of journalists' murders remain unsolved in Mexico.
Valdez was at least the fifth reporter killed so far this year. Another, Salvador Adame, the head of a local TV station in the state of Michoacan, has been missing since gunmen abducted him on May 18.
Listen: Mourning a Journalist in Mexico Who Said 'No to Silence' (PRI's The World)
Mexico is the third-deadliest country in the world for journalists, after Syria and Afghanistan, according to the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders.
Many of the victims were reporting on the country's multi-billion-dollar drug cartels, rampant government corruption, or both.
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