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Journalists urge a protest for the murder of their colleague Lourdes Maldonado
A call was made to attend the occasion with candles and photographs in various urban communities.
Against violence, journalists in Mexico have organized demonstrations for this Tuesday in 22 cities in the country, to denounce the murder of Lourdes Maldonado López, Margarito Martínez Esquivel and José Luis Gamboa Arenas, executed in just fourteen days.
In this event, there will be a reading of a joint agreement and a list of names of all the murdered journalists.
Correspondents, columnists, communicators and graphic reporters will hold demonstrations in: CDMX, Tijuana, Toluca, Piedras Negras, Cancún, Monterrey, Chilpancingo, Córdoba, Chiapas, Mérida, Orizaba, Veracruz, Morelia, Colima, Mazatlán, Culiacán, Chihuahua, Guadalajara, Acapulco, Xalapa, Uruapan, and Campeche.
The organizers recommend using the hashtags on social networks : #NiSilencioNiOlvido, #NoSeMataLaVerdad, #SinMasPeriodistasEnSusListas and #PeriodismoEnRiesgo.
Murders this new year
On Sunday, January 23, Maldonado López was assassinated in the city of Tijuana. On Monday, January 17, Martínez Esquivel, a photojournalist, was shot multiple times in the Sánchez Taboada area, in Baja California;
On January 10, Gamboa Arenas received several cuts in the Port of Veracruz.
Official statements
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador lamented the murder of Lourdes Maldonado this Monday in his question and answer session.
However, he removed his administration from the grievances against journalists, arguing that violence, corruption and inequality have been inherited from his predecessors.
This Monday, an examination of the MX Media Alliance, in which Process is a part, was discovered, which shows groups with a lot of power in the north of Veracruz to plan the murder of María Elena Ferral, which occurred on March 30, 2020.
Last year, 45 journalists and media workers were killed while carrying out their work, of which nine communicators were Mexican, according to the annual report of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
In 2017, the public and global media, as well as common associations, requested through an assertion that the savagery against journalists in Mexico stop, after the murder of Javier Valdez.
In 2017, civil organizations, national and international media outlets, called for an end to the violence against communicators in Mexico, after the murder of Javier Valdez at that time.
Journalists murdered in Mexico
Since 2000 there has been a large increase in cases of murder of people who practice journalism. A total of 148 journalists have been murdered these 22 years.
Of 148 journalists who have died in connection with their work, 12 have been women. 47 of the murders were recorded in the previous term of Enrique Peña Nieto, and 28 in the current term of President Manuel López Obrador.
The largest record of murder of journalists has been in the government of Javier Duarte, in which 18 communicators were murdered, including the photojournalist Rubén Espinosa.
