Mexico Ranks Third Most Deadly Latin American Country for Journalists in 2014 Teresa Mioli - Journalism in the Americas
go to original January 3, 2015

Paraguay, Brazil and Mexico placed in the top 20 deadliest countries for journalists in 2014, according to a special year-end report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

The database numbers provided by CPJ tally the deaths of journalists in which the motive for the killing was directly work-related.

...In Mexico, CPJ confirmed that two journalists were killed in 2014 because of their work. Newspaper reporter Octavio Rojas Hernández, who had recently started working for El Buen Tono in Córdoba, Veracruz, was shot outside his home in Oaxaca in August. According to the publication’s news director, the killing was related to a story that linked a municipal police director to a gas theft ring.

Again, in Veracruz, reporter Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz was killed after being abducted in February by armed men near Coatzacoalcos. Jiménez followed crime and security beats for newspapers Notisur and Liberal del Sur, according to CPJ.

If previous trends of impunity continue with regard to murders of journalists in the region, identification and prosecution of assailants in most of these cases are unlikely to take place. In CPJ’s 2014 Global Impunity Index, Mexico and Brazil rank 7th and 10th, respectively. Latin American counterpart Colombia is at number 5.

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