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Miguel Ángel Anaya Castillo

Mexican journalist Miguel Ángel Anaya missing in Veracruz

Mexico City, May 8, 2025—Mexican authorities must investigate the disappearance of journalist Miguel Ángel Anaya Castillo, the founder and editor of news website Pánuco Online, and determine whether it is related to his work as a journalist, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. “The disappearance of Miguel Ángel Anaya not only underscores the terrifying…

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Two Tapachula journalists who spoke to CPJ by phone on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisal, believe Noticias Chiapas al ROJO was created by a criminal gang to spread disinformation against rivals, authorities and journalists. (Screenshot: Facebook)

17 Mexican journalists smeared by Facebook page allegedly run by gang members

Mexico City, April 3, 2025—Mexican authorities should immediately take steps to protect 17 reporters named by a Facebook page allegedly run by a criminal gang in the state of Chiapas and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. On Friday, March 28, the Facebook page “Noticias Chiapas al ROJO” published the…

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A police vehicle (left) guards the March 3, 2024, funeral of journalist Kristian Zavala (right), who was shot dead a day earlier in the central Mexico state of Guanjuato. (Photo, left: AFP/Mario Armas; screenshot, right: ElUniversalMex/YouTube)

Mexican journalist Kristian Zavala killed after seeking state protection

Mexico City, March 5, 2025—Authorities must credibly investigate the March 2 shooting of journalist Kristian Zavala, who is the third press member to be killed in Mexico this year, despite his 2021 request for federal protection, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Zavala, founder and editor of the Facebook-based news outlet El Silaoense MX,…

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Mexican journalist Alejandro Gallegos killed in Tabasco

Mexico City, January 31, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mexican authorities to swiftly complete an investigation into the killing of journalist Alejandro Gallegos León, an academic and evangelical pastor based in the state of Tabasco, who was reported missing on January 24, according to a report. His remains were found the next day in the town…

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A police officer guards the funeral site of Mexican journalist Alejandro Martinez Noguez in Celaya City, Mexico, on August 5, 2024. Unidentified attackers shot and killed another reporter, Calletano de Jesús Guerrero, in Teoloyucan on January 17, 2025. (Photo: AFP/Mario Armas)

Mexican journalist under federal protection shot dead 

Mexico City, January 24, 2025—Unidentified attackers shot and killed reporter Calletano de Jesús Guerrero while he was in the parking lot of the San Antonio de Padua parish church in Teoloyucan, a town 25 miles north of Mexico City, on Friday, January 17. Guerrero, 57, had been under federal protection since 2014 because of threats…

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CPJ, 24 other organizations release report on state censorship in the Americas

Twenty-four civil society organizations working in seven Latin American countries, including the Committee to Protect Journalists, released a November 2024 report titled “Impact of state censorship measures on the right to freedom of expression in the Americas,” which included information provided during the 190th regular session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in July 2024.  The press freedom groups work in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador,…

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Patricia Ramírez González

Mexican journalist Paty Bunbury shot dead in Colima, 2nd killed in less than 24 hours

Mexico City, October 31, 2024—Mexican authorities must immediately and transparently investigate Wednesday’s killing of journalist Patricia Ramírez González, also known as Paty Bunbury, in the city of Colima, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday.  Ramírez, an entertainment reporter for the privately owned Hechos newspaper, was the second Mexican journalist killed in less than 24…

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Reporter Mauricio Cruz Solís is seen in a video image shortly before he was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the state of Michoacán, in southwestern Mexico, on October 29, 2024. (Screenshot: El Economista TV/YouTube)

Mexican reporter shot dead moments after interviewing mayor

Mexico City, October 30, 2024—Unidentified assaults shot and killed journalist Mauricio Cruz Solís at around 10 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29, in Urupan, a city in the southwestern state of Michoacán, moments after he interviewed Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo about a recent local market fire.  “The brutal and brazen killing of journalist Mauricio Cruz Solís…

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Police inspect the scene of the shooting at the offices of newspaper El Debate in Culiacán, Mexico, on October 18, 2024

Assailants shoot at El Debate newspaper office in Mexico

Mexico City, October 18, 2024—CPJ is highly concerned after unidentified attackers fired at the offices of the El Debate newspaper at 11 p.m. on October 17, in Culiacán, the capital of the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa. No one was hurt; the building’s facade, two outlet cars, and two staff members’ personal vehicles were damaged…

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Mexico City police arrest 2 journalists at human rights protest

Mexico City, September 9, 2024—Police beat at least two journalists and arrested two others during a protest for human rights in Xochimilco, a southern borough of Mexico City, on Thursday, September 5, according to members of the media who witnessed the incidents. “By brutally repressing a social protest and attacking journalists who were simply covering…

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