Violence Continues to Undermine Confidence in President Pena Nieto's Government Amy Stillman - The Financial Times
go to original August 14, 2015

Mexican Journalists Face Threats, Repression (teleSUR English)

Friends warned the young photographer to flee to Mexico City for protection after he received threats over his work in violence-torn Veracruz state. Rubén Espinosa heeded the warnings but it did not matter.

Mr Espinosa was found dead along with four other people in his apartment in Mexico’s capital on July 31. Investigations into his murder, along with the killing last week of Miguel Ángel Jiménez Blanco, who led a community search for Mexico’s 43 missing students, have so far yielded little more than mistrust in a nation submerged in a security crisis.

“What really worries me is that when I’ve spoken to Mexican colleagues, the message they’re taking away from these killings is that truth-seekers in the country are not protected,” says Alfredo Corchado, a veteran reporter of Mexico’s bloody drug wars. “This is when the government has to step up and prove everyone wrong.”

Mr Espinosa was the first journalist murdered in Mexico City since 2006. His death has fed into fears that violence may be spilling over into the capital, shattering the notion that Mexico’s urban metropolises are havens from the lawlessness gripping other parts of the country.

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Related: Reporter Killed in Veracruz Bar Shooting Was About to Start His Own Newspaper (VICE News)

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