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It was during a recent press conference that Mexican President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto called for a minute of silence to recognize the many journalists\u2014including six this year thus far\u2014who have been murdered in Mexico.<\/p>\n

As federal officials stood up from their chairs, the silence was interrupted by reporters covering the address, who shouted, \u201cJustice!\u201d \u201cNo more speeches!\u201d \u201cOpen the investigation binders!\u201d<\/p>\n

And in a gesture that mimicked the government\u2019s reaction to so many unsolved murders, the officials simply remained silent as if nothing unusual was happening.<\/p>\n

Killing with impunity<\/b><\/p>\n

An incredible 98 percent of all murders in Mexico go unsolved. In 2016 alone, 11 reporters were killed, making it the deadliest year for Mexican press so far this century.<\/p>\n

Getting an exact tally of murdered journalists is difficult though, as the counts vary between different agencies. One count from the non-government organization (NGO) Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has 95 reporters killed in Mexico since 1994, while an estimate from the New York Times places this number at 104 killed and 25 disappeared since 2000.<\/p>\n

Repeated and brutal attacks on the press rank Mexico 147th for press freedom out of 180 countries, according to The World Press Freedom Index.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be a journalist in Mexico seems more of a death sentence than a profession,\u201d Tania Reneaum, director of Amnesty International Mexico, wrote in a press release. \u201cThe continuous spilling of blood, which the authorities prefer to ignore, generates a deep void that affects the exercise of freedom of expression in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Miroslava Breach, a reporter for El Norte de Juarez, was fatally shot outside her home on March 23, 2017, the Ciudad Juarez-based publication made a sudden decision to shut down.<\/p>\n

In a front-page letter titled \u201cAdi\u00f3s,\u201d editor-in-chief Oscar Cant\u00fa Murgu\u00eda addressed his readers:<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything in life has a beginning and an end, a price to pay. I am not ready for one more of my collaborators to pay for it and I am not either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Violence a product of corruption<\/b><\/p>\n

The violence plaguing Mexico is usually attributed exclusively to cartels\u2014a common perception fed by television shows, films and corridos that portray drug lords as powerful men, who defy the government.<\/p>\n

But, as City University of New York associate professor Oswaldo Zavala said in an interview with Remezcla last year, this explanation mischaracterizes the nature of the relationship between cartels and the Mexican government.<\/p>\n

\u201cMexico is not a matter of drug cartels threatening the Mexican state … but a matter of the state controlling the drug organizations,\u201d said Zavala, who was born in Ciudad Juarez and studies the U.S.-Mexico drug trade. \u201cThese drugs don\u2019t just evaporate and suddenly show up in New York. There are larger schemes and traffic routes within the U.S. Nobody wants to talk about how it is that you can get high in New York when there\u2019s mass surveillance done by the NSA and others. We all want to talk about the drug lords in Mexico \u2026 without the state, these drug organizations wouldn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zavala\u2019s statement is corroborated by a report on Mexico\u2019s Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Advocates and Journalists that was released last year by the Washington Office of Latin America (WOLA) and Peace Brigades International.<\/p>\n

The WOLA report found that of the 316 requests for protection the Mechanism has accepted since its founding in 2012, 38 percent of the alleged aggressors were public servants (while 31 percent were private, and another 31 percent remained unidentified.)<\/p>\n

It also found that protective strategies are not being implemented adequately. In some cases, \u201cthe very police corps identified as the aggressor is the authority assigned to protect an advocate or journalist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mexico government\u2019s <\/b>promise of reform<\/b><\/p>\n

On May 4, a special delegation from CPJ met with Pe\u00f1a Nieto to discuss its report titled \u201cNo Excuses,\u201d and to urge the president to address the epidemic of \u201ccrimes committed against freedom of expression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pe\u00f1a Nieto promised to replace Ricardo N\u00e1jera, the lead prosecutor for Crimes Committed Against Freedom of Expression (FEADLE for its Spanish acronym), whose office has repeatedly failed to take on cases. (FEADLE has achieved only three convictions since its inception in 2010.)<\/p>\n

The CPJ report highlights FEADLE\u2019s failures through the case of Mois\u00e9s S\u00e1nchez, the editor of La Uni\u00f3n newspaper in Veracruz. S\u00e1nchez was dragged into a waiting car in front of his family in January 2015. Three weeks later, his body was found decapitated and dismembered.<\/p>\n

Family and colleagues believe S\u00e1nchez\u2019s death was in retaliation for his coverage of Medellin, Veracruz Mayor Omar Cruz Reyes.<\/p>\n

But N\u00e1jera dismissed the case, maintaining that S\u00e1nchez was a cabdriver and his death was not linked to journalistic activities.<\/p>\n

Investigators later obtained testimony from one of the mayor\u2019s bodyguards, who said Reyes did in fact order the assassination. But by the time N\u00e1jera\u2019s office took on the case, Reyes had already fled the state.<\/p>\n

N\u00e1jera was eventually replaced on May 10 by Ricardo S\u00e1nchez Perez del Pozo, an attorney with an International Law and Human Rights degree from Northwestern University in Chicago.<\/p>\n

The latest tragedy<\/b><\/p>\n

On May 15, Javier Valdez, a veteran journalist and founder of the Sinaloa newspaper R\u00edodoce, was murdered. Valdez had been recognized in 2011 by the CPJ for his \u201cbravery and uncompromising journalism in the face of threats.\u201d But the threats caught up with him, and just a block away from the R\u00edodoce newsroom, he was pulled from his moving vehicle in broad daylight and killed by unidentified gunmen who left his lifeless body in the middle of the street.<\/p>\n

Valdez\u2019s murder sent a shockwave of fear through Mexico\u2019s journalism community. Many worried what the murder of a journalist of Valdez\u2019s stature and recognition might mean for the safety of the average local reporter.<\/p>\n

On Friday May 19, a small group of people gathered in San Francisco at the 24th Street BART plaza to mourn Valdez and the many other Mexican journalists slain before him.<\/p>\n

Chelis Lopez, a well-known radio host and producer at KPOO, who organized the gathering, acknowledged that one would usually hold a minute of silence in honor of those passed. But like the journalists in Mexico who shouted at Pe\u00f1a Nieto, she believes refusing to follow the gesture makes a powerful statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not up to keeping silent, we must denounce. Javier taught us not to be gagged journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Explaining why he continued to report on topics that could endanger his life, Javier Valdez once said \u201cI want to carry on living, I want to carry on breathing. To die would be to stop writing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mart\u00edn M\u00e9ndez Pineda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mexican journalist in danger after denied asylum by U.S.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

In February of 2016, Martin Mendez Pineda, a 26 year-old reporter for Novedades Acapulco, witnessed abuses by the Mexican military during a traffic accident and began taking photos.<\/p>\n

Federal agents attacked him and took his camera and credentials, telling him to leave the area. He filed a complaint with the National Commission for Human Rights and began receiving threats over the phone immediately after. A few weeks later, several gunmen arrived at his home and told him to keep quiet, so he moved across the country, but the threatening phone calls continued.<\/p>\n

After a year of living in fear, Mendez Pineda had enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cI decided to do as the law indicates: I walked over the border, presented myself to authorities in El Paso and told them that I feared for my safety at home,\u201d he wrote in a letter to The Washington Post on May 25.<\/p>\n

\u201cCustoms and Border Protection agents detained me and held me in federal custody for more than 100 days, even though I had submitted all the necessary legal documents and passed a \u2018credible fear interview\u2019 in March, showing that I faced real danger at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within days of his detention, international organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF for its acronym in French) wrote a letter of support for Mendez Pineda\u2019s asylum. RSF conducts investigations to verify claims of threats against journalists, and \u201cverify their testimonies against our own sources.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur organization is convinced that if Mendez Pineda is forced to return to his country, he will be subject to reprisals\u2026 We hope your services will allow him to move into and stay permanently safe in the United States,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n

But even with international support, and following the process required by law, his request was denied twice, on the grounds that he lacked \u201cties to the community and was thus considered a flight risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facing the prospect of indefinite detention in conditions he called \u201clike hell,\u201d Mendez Pineda chose to be deported. As of press time, his exact location in Mexico remains confidential for safety reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy life is in danger again now that I\u2019m back in Mexico,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBut my hope for other journalists seeking refuge in the United States will continue to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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