Special Report: Dozens of Mexican Journalists Missing, Displaced and Killed Julieta Pelcastre - Baltimore Post-Examiner
go to original November 18, 2013

Watch the documentary, ‘Reporters against Silence’ to learn more. (Baltimore PostExaminer)

“We have a gagged Mexico,” said Mario Alberto Segura, a displaced journalist who works as a clown to survive in the country’s capita.

In Mexico, organized crime and some corrupt authorities tightly control the activity of journalists, dozens of journalists have been killed, disappeared and displaced because of their reporting on the culture of illegality, corruption and drug trafficking, Segura said.

When Segura was a journalist and El Sol del Sur Tampico Internet portal director in Tamaulipas, he used to work some weekends as a clown at children’s parties because his income as a journalist wasn’t enough to cover his family’s needs.

Segura, 52, never imagined that his activity of making people laugh would become his permanent way of making his living after he had to leave his job and his home in Tampico, to protect himself and his family.

“Now I promote my show for the children on the streets and in supermarkets in Mexico City, I need customers. I am ‘Mayito’ the clown.”

Segura’s family works with him. “We need to survive,” Segura said.

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