![]() ![]() Prosecutors initially said the murder appeared unrelated to Álvarez’s work, but the case remains unsolved. Javier Valdez Cárdenas: The journalist, who was prominent for his coverage of drug cartels, was killed on in Sinaloa state in broad daylight when unidentified assailants ambushed his car, dragged him from the vehicle and shot him before using the car to make their getaway.įiliberto Álvarez Landeros: Unidentified gunmen shot the radio host on Apafter he left his evening radio program in the state of Morelos. Salvador Adame Pardo: The charred remains of the director of local channel 6TV were found on Jin the state of Michoacán, nearly one month after he was kidnapped. Rivera had fled to Mexico from Honduras after gunmen in January murdered the director and producer of the TV show where he worked as a cameraman. In addition to Rivera, the following journalists have been killed in Mexico since January 2017:Įdwin Rivera Paz: The body of the Honduran photojournalist was found in Veracruz state on Jwith gunshot wounds. In a country where some 90 percent of crimes against journalists go unpunished, the ongoing failure to achieve justice leaves those journalists’ surviving colleagues more and more exposed each day. However, that tally does not include 27 others, including Rivera and Espinosa, killed since the beginning of 2015. Since 1997, the International Press Institute (IPI) has linked at least 90 journalists’ deaths in Mexico to their work. Espinosa, a photojournalist from the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, was found dead bearing signs of torture two months after he fled to Mexico City to escape harassment, surveillance and threats.Ī swift, transparent and complete investigation into Rivera’s murder would clarify whether he was merely a victim of the widespread violence that has accompanied the government’s war on drug cartels, lately centred in Mexico’s Baja California state, or the target of an organised assassination.īut given Mexican investigators’ reputation for failing to fully investigate journalists’ murders or, worse, mischaracterising them to conceal the true toll, observers fear Rivera’s and Espinosa’s cases will lead to the same end: a stalled investigation, no determination whether the killing was linked to the journalist’s work and a lesson to those who would murder journalists that doing so carries no real consequence. The killing, at first glance, may not seem to be connected to Rivera’s work or comparable to Espinosa’s demise. Local news media reported that Rivera, a TV presenter for local channel CNR, was shot in the head after confronting a group of men allegedly harassing women at a local bar in the resort town south of Tijuana. Monday’s murder of journalist Luciano Rivera Salgado in Rosarito, Mexico on the two-year anniversary of the shocking killing of photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and four activists in Mexico City highlights, again, the bitter harvest of the country’s ongoing culture of impunity for crimes against journalists. IJ4EU (Investigative Journalism for Europe).COVID-19: How IPI members face the challenge.Countering Online Harassment of Journalists. ![]() Europe: Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR).Helsingin Sanomat Foundation Journalism Fellowship at IPI. ![]()
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