Government Has Resolved Only 9% of Attacks on Mexico's Journalists CNN Mexico
go to original June 16, 2013

More than 100 Mexican journalists have been killed or have disappeared since the year 2000, many of them while covering the government's drug war. Newspapers, radio stations and TV towers have been bombed with grenades. The attacks have become a threat to the Mexico's democracy. Al Jazeera's Adam Raney reports from Mexico City. (AlJazeeraEnglish)

Mexico has a 91% impunity rate with regards to the attacks that, from the year 2000 until today, have been committed against journalists. Of the 143 cases that are documented, only in 12 has a sentence been passed, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) reported.

In Mexico, the CNDH has documented, from 2000 to today, 84 murders of journalists, and from 2005 to April 30, 2013, 20 disappearances of media employees, and, as well, 39 attacks against their facilities, according to a bulletin released this past Saturday.

The Attorney General of Mexico is the principal agency against which the most documented complaints have been presented before the CNDH for attacks against journalists. This is followed by the Federal Police, the Secretary of National Defense, the Attorney General of the state of Veracruz, and the Secretary of Government Relations, reported the organization.

The entities of the Mexican Republic where the majority of the attacks have occurred are Mexico City, Veracruz, Chiapas, Mexico State, and Chihuahua.

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