Cartels Kidnap and Free Mexican Editor Whose Mission Is to Find Missing Journalists Alex Ormaza - Baltimore Post-Examiner
go to original November 28, 2013

The Baltimore Post-Examiner is pleased to showcase Alex Ormaza’s documentary – Reporters against Silence. Ormaza, a Fulbright Scholar with more than two decades of journalism experience in bilingual, multicultural and international environments, provides a powerful film about the dangers of reporting the truth in a country at war with the cartels. (Baltimore PostExaminer)

Mexican journalist Luis Cardona was kidnapped, tortured and expelled from Chihuahua with four herniated discs on his spine over a year ago, all courtesy of organized crime operatives who were not happy with his reports.

Although his departure has meant leaving his family behind and not having a steady job nor a steady place to live, Cardona has used his time to help document cases of colleagues who were presumably killed by organized crime groups in other parts of Mexico.

Cardona is one of at least seven journalists who were displaced by organized crime in Mexico the international organization Reporters without Borders ((RSF) documented in 2012. These displaced journalists are in most cases unemployed or living in underemployment conditions.

Since his departure from Chihuahua, where he was forced to leave behind his young son with health issues and two older children, Cardona has received help from Article 19, an international organization that advocates for freedom of expression with offices in Mexico.

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This is part of an ongoing series featuring the documentary Reporters Against Silence. Read more articles from the series here.

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