OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Feb. 10, yet another Mexican journalist was murdered, the fifth so far this year, and the 50th since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office three years ago. Heber López, from the internet news site Noticias Web in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, was shot dead in broad daylight as he left his office Thursday
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just 24 hours after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) decried a report in Reforma noting that 56 human rights activists had been killed so far during his presidency as “false” and “a political conspiracy aimed at discrediting his administration,” the government’s own Secretariat of the Interior (Gobernación, or Segob) pointed out that the newspaper’s figures
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By KELIN DILLON Though Jan. 4 was National Journalist’s Day in Mexico, there was very little to celebrate for most reporters. At least eight journalists were killed in Mexico during 2020, according to Reporters Without Borders, making it the most deadly country in the world for news reporters. Mexico’s high number of journalist fatalities was followed in number by Iraq,
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