The Deadliest Assignment: Reporting in Mexico Can Get You Killed Alex Pena and Gilad Thaler - CBS News
go to original August 23, 2017

Mexico shares the title as ’Most dangerous place on earth to be a journalist.’ Reporting on its drug cartels can often be a death sentence. (CBS News)

Update: Mexican Journalist Candido Rios Murdered in Veracruz, 10th of 2017 (PTI)

Sirens blared as a Ciudad Juarez State Police Officer raced down the street en route to the day's latest murder. Someone had been shot and the suspect was still at large. The officer arrived at an empty field on the outskirts of "La Valle de Juarez," an area notoriously violent and under control of the cartels. It doesn't take long for them to discover the body.

It's a typical Saturday night in the city of 1.3 million people, located just steps from the border with El Paso, Texas. Cd. Juarez has been plagued by violence since 2009 when President Felipe Calderon declared war on the country's drug cartels.

... Mexico has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. Reporting on cartel violence and government corruption has led to 100 journalist killings in the past 25 years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. This year alone 8 journalists were killed, including Miroslava Breach, one of Mexico's leading investigative reporters. She was gunned down outside her home after reporting on collision between cartels and government.

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