The deadliest year in at least three decades for Mexican journalists and media workers is nearing a close, with 15 slayings
Photos of slain journalists are displayed on a wall during a vigil to protest the murder of journalist Fredid Roman, outside Mexico's Attorney General's office in Mexico City, on Aug. 24, 2022.MEXICO CITY — — a perilous situation underlined by a brazen near-miss attack this week on one of the country’s most prominent journalists.
That incident drew little notice. But it was national news that shots were fired at Gómez Leyva, who is one of Mexico’s best known journalists. He is a regular critic of the government and a frequent target of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s tirades against press criticism. “Andrés Manuel López Obrador, both during the campaign and as president, has successfully politicized journalism in Mexico more than it has ever been in recent memory,” Hootsen said.
Corcoran’s book focused on the 2012 killing one such journalist, Regina Martínez from the national news magazine Proceso. She said Martínez’s murder in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz overturned the government narrative that had long painted journalists who were killed as victims of their own corruption. Martínez was well-known, respected, ethical and believed to be beyond reproach.
“That idea of paying the press is going to haunt the press in Mexico forever, because it did exist and intermittently came back,” she said.
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