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Berlin, February 2, 2022\u2014It has been a bloody January. With Jos\u00e9 Luis Gamboa in Veracruz, Margarito Mart\u00ednez and Lourdes Maldonado L\u00f3pez in Tijuana, and Roberto Toledo in Michoac\u00e1n, four Mexican journalists have already been murdered since the beginning of the year. Thus, in the year 2022, the trend to increasingly repress freedom of expression and freedom of the press with violence continues. The human rights organization Art\u00edculo 19 has reported that, since 2000, at least 148 journalists have been killed for reasons linked to their work. In recent years, in no other country in the world have so many media workers died, victims of assassination. Moreover, very few cases are ever solved.<\/p>\n
“Impunity kills,” stresses investigative journalist Marcela Turati. “The fact that more than 90% of the\u00a0 murders are not solved is an invitation to all those who want to silence a journalist.” Crimes must be\u00a0 investigated independently and investigations must focus on the exercise of the journalistic\u00a0 profession, Turati stresses. “This is what we have been demanding for many years. Most of the time\u00a0 they only start investigating when there are public protests.” Last week, in many Mexican cities,\u00a0 journalists took to the streets to demand an end to violence against them and for greater protection.<\/p>\n
Those who investigate drug cartels or state corruption face intimidation, threats, public smear\u00a0 campaigns, as well as illegal surveillance by organized crime or state agencies. “The Mexican state\u00a0 must investigate crimes, protect journalists effectively and allow them to practice their profession\u00a0 without fear,” says Fran\u00e7oise Greve of the German Coordination for Human Rights in Mexico.\u00a0 “Germany’s new government and members of parliament must put the effective protection of\u00a0 journalists and press freedom as a priority on the agenda of the bilateral talks and demand its implementation.”<\/p>\n
The state mechanism for the protection of human rights defenders and journalists, created in 2012,\u00a0 does not have sufficient funding, technical equipment, or adequate personnel. Journalist Lourdes\u00a0 Maldonado L\u00f3pez, murdered in Tijuana in January, had been included in the protection program;\u00a0 however, this did not help her. Because of her articles on corruption cases at the local level, she was\u00a0 repeatedly threatened, among others, by politicians as well. In 2019, during one of her morning press conferences, she told President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador of her fear of being murdered.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of his term, L\u00f3pez Obrador promised to support freedom of press and human\u00a0 rights. However, his relationship with the media has fractured. The president regularly lashes out at media and journalists who are critical of his government, accusing them of ignorance or corruption. In this way, he himself fuels a hostile climate against the journalists’ guild. Since L\u00f3pez Obrador’s inauguration<\/p>\n
Contact us for more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n Tobias Lambert, Press and Communication, German Coordination for Human Rights in Mexico, Tel: +49\u00a0 (0)157717308 – 93\/ presse@mexiko-koordination.de<\/p>\n The German Coordination for Human Rights in Mexico is a network composed of:<\/strong><\/p>\n Pastoral Work for Latin America Adveniat, Amnesty International Germany, A.C., Carea A.C.,\u00a0 Franziskaner Helfen, Missionszentrale der Franziskaner, Compa\u00f1er@s de M\u00e9xico del Sur A.C., Initiative\u00a0 for Mexico of Cologne and Bonn, Initiative Mexiko (INI-MEX), M\u00e9xico via Berlin A.C., Obra Episcopal\u00a0 MISEREOR, Ecumenical Office for Peace and Justice A.C., Pacta Servanda A.C., Bread for the World, pax\u00a0 christi \/ One World Commission, German Jesuit Mission Procure, Promovio, Casa del Mundo Bielefeld,\u00a0 and Zapapres A.C.<\/p>\n English translation: Alexandra Gulden, Quixote Center<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mexican State has a duty to guarantee effective protection for journalists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,28],"tags":[51,144,74],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communique","category-news","tag-franciscan-network","tag-human-rights","tag-protect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfranciscana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfranciscana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfranciscana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfranciscana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfranciscana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/redfranciscana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/redfranciscana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfranciscana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfranciscana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfranciscana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfranciscana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}