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Journalists reporting, and surviving, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

Journalists reporting, and surviving, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

The Committee for the Protection of Journalists reports on journalists working in the northern border town of Ciudad Juarez.

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Frontline discussion: Narco wars Mexico

Frontline discussion: Narco wars Mexico

Broadcast live on Ustream, June 24th 2009
Moderator: Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor for Channel 4 News
Panel:Ed Vulliamy, Guardian and Observer journalist and writer
Alex Tweddle

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Nearly 10,000 migrant kidnappings in Mexico in 6 months

Nearly 10,000 migrant kidnappings in Mexico in 6 months

During that period, 9,758 migrants were deprived of their liberty. More than 60 percent of kidnappings involved groups of migrants travelling together. The majority of those kidnapped were from Honduras (67 %). ¡8% oer the victims were from El Salvador and 13% from Guatemala.

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First Stop in the New World: Taxi Ride

First Stop in the New World: Taxi Ride

This is the final in our series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World,” which has just come out in paperback. The book is divided between long chapters that deal with topics of great importance in Mexico City (crime, inequality, food, sex and even shopping), and shorter chapters that provide [...]

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BorderReporter: God’s Gonna Cut You Down

BorderReporter: God’s Gonna Cut You Down

What happened here last week was a sheer massacre.

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First Stop in the New World: the Reality of Crime

First Stop in the New World: the Reality of Crime

This week MexicoReporter.com is publishing a series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World,” which has just come out in paperback. The book is divided between long chapters that deal with topics of great importance in Mexico City (crime, inequality, food, sex and even shopping), and shorter chapters that provide [...]

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Latest editor at the News laid off

Latest editor at the News laid off

The most recently appointed editor at the English language newspaper here in Mexico City the News has left the title after just a week in the job.

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Video: Training Day

Video: Training Day

My breath is tearing out of my lungs and my leg muscles are screaming for a reprieve. I just scaled a 60-degree hill coated in thorny brambles and poisonous plants whilst being pounded by rain. In the dark. I thought it couldn’t get any worse, but it did. Later that night, my fellow journalists and I were kidnapped by masked guerillas who jumped onto our bus.

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Swine flu doesn’t deter art fans in Mexico City

Swine flu doesn’t deter art fans in Mexico City

I at least expected to see fashionable versions of the blue face masks being combined with the latest clothes labels, but it wasn’t so.

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Obama starts a new era in Mexico drive-by

Obama starts a new era in Mexico drive-by

I didn’t think I was going to be able to make it into work this morning. Not because of Mexico’s overloaded public transport system, but because U.S President Barack Obama was expected to arrive on his first visit to Mexico here in the country’s capital.

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Video: ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in Iztapalapa, Mexico

Video: ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in Iztapalapa, Mexico

It wasn’t hard to imagine what the real crucifixion of Christ might have been like if you were anywhere near the populous, working-class neighborhood of Iztapalapa in Mexico City last Friday.

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Talking violence in Texas

Talking violence in Texas

Last week, I was invited to speak at the University of Texas Pan America about MexicoReporter.com, violence against journalists, the drug war coverage and how new technologies are contributing to the journalism beast. So I went.

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Video: Peter Gabriel asks for political will to end impunity over Ciudad Juarez’s dead women

Video: Peter Gabriel asks for political will to end impunity over Ciudad Juarez’s dead women

Peter Gabriel implored President Calderon to show “real political will, muscle and budget” in investigating the hundreds of unsolved murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez.

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Photojournalism show explains 2008 in Mexico

Photojournalism show explains 2008 in Mexico

Mexico City’s Museo de la Ciudad is playing host to a photojournalism exhibition — Expofotoperiodismo — that features nearly 50 photos from 2008.

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Mexico’s media under scrutiny in documentary

Mexico’s media under scrutiny in documentary

Violence against journalists in Mexico is nothing new but “Voces Silenciadas” broadens the debate around the persecution of journalists to encompass the bigger issues of media ownership and the relationship between the media and Mexico’s political powers.

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Mexico’s special prosecutor for crimes against journalists ineffective, reports nonprofit

Mexico’s special prosecutor for crimes against journalists ineffective, reports nonprofit

Freedom of expression advocates in Mexico have issued yet another missive in support of the country’s long-suffering journalistic community.

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Violence against journalists continues in Latin America

Violence against journalists continues in Latin America

We keep our eye on the frequent press-freedom reports that come out, given the high levels of violence against journalists in Mexico. Tuesday’s release by the Committee to Protect Journalists, sadly, held no surprises.

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Video: Carmen Aristegui habla sobre la realidad en México para los periodistas

Video: Carmen Aristegui habla sobre la realidad en México para los periodistas

Para ver la entrevista completa (40 minutos), haz click aquí.

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Anti-piracy campaign targets cinema-goers

Anti-piracy campaign targets cinema-goers

Take a trip to the cinema in Mexico anytime soon and you’ll probably see an ad campaign that scolds the Mexican public for buying pirated movies.

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Lydia Cacho publishes manual for parents on detecting child abuse

Lydia Cacho publishes manual for parents on detecting child abuse

Lydia Cacho’s celebrity was apparent from the get-go last Thursday night in the trendy Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, where the journalist launched her new book “Not With My Child” (Con Mi Hij@ No).

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Video: Central American migrants face more hurdles

Video: Central American migrants face more hurdles

A group of Honduran men and women came to Mexico looking for their missing loved ones earlier this year. They claim that there are nearly 600 Honduran migrants who are missing in Mexico who disappeared whilst crossing Mexico to get to the United States.

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Death penalty advertisements in Mexico

Death penalty advertisements in Mexico

You see some strong stuff on the streets of Mexico City ans this month was no different: an advertising campaign from Mexico’s Green Party demanding the return of the death penalty to the country.

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Mexico should pay attention to International Anti-Corruption Day

Mexico should pay attention to International Anti-Corruption Day

Mexicans might be encouraged to do a bit of soul-searching today by a United Nations campaign, which has declared December 9th International Anti-Corruption Day.

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Media advertising campaign targets violence against journalists

Media advertising campaign targets violence against journalists

A television, radio and print advertising campaign is to launch here in Mexico in an attempt by press freedom groups to raise public awareness about violence against journalists.

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Video: Crimes Against Dogs in Mexico City

Video: Crimes Against Dogs in Mexico City

When thieves brandishing handguns broke into Ignacio Villanueva’s bulldog breeding kennels on the outskirts of Mexico City, it wasn’t the safe they were after but Cinderella, Titiana, Adelita and a handful of other dogs and puppies.

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45 journalists killed in Mexico since 2000; rights body appeals for end to impunity

45 journalists killed in Mexico since 2000; rights body appeals for end to impunity

Mexico’s National Commission of Human Rights appealed to authorities over the weekend to investigate thoroughly the recent killings of a number of journalists here, and to put an end to the impunity for those who murder members of the profession.

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Media non-profit appeals for asylum for journalists escaping Mexico

Media non-profit appeals for asylum for journalists escaping Mexico

Reporters Without Borders issued an appeal to the international community today to provide asylum for journalists fleeing Mexican cities such a Ciudad Juarez.

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Journalist flees Ciudad Juarez to the U.S

Journalist flees Ciudad Juarez to the U.S

Jorge Luis Aguirre, director of the news website “La Polaka,” has fled Mexico with his family to the United States after receiving death threats in his home city of Ciudad Juárez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Newspaper offices in Northern Mexico attacked with grenades

Newspaper offices in Northern Mexico attacked with grenades

Reports are surfacing this morning that the offices of the Culiacán newspaper El Debate were attacked with two grenades early Monday.

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Crime reporter shot to death in Ciudad Juarez

Crime reporter shot to death in Ciudad Juarez

Veteran Mexican crime reporter Armando Rodríguez was shot to death yesterday morning while in his car in the border city of Ciudad Juárez.

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More than half of Mexicans surveyed suspect foul play in plane crash

More than half of Mexicans surveyed suspect foul play in plane crash

Mexicans don’t have much faith in the word of their government. The natural reaction of many here in Mexico following a plane crash last week that killed Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño has been suspicion.

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Plane crash “an accident”, says Mexico government

Plane crash “an accident”, says Mexico government

The Mexico Government maintains that there is no sign of foul play surrounding the plane crash on Tuesday night here in Mexico City that killed interior minister Juan Camilo Mouriño.

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Two years on, dead U.S journalist remembered on both sides of the border

Two years on, dead U.S journalist remembered on both sides of the border

Activists and rights groups marched in remembrance of Brad Will yesterday in the state of Oaxaca, marking the second anniversary of the fatal shooting of the U.S videographer.

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Video: Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard’s daily hassles

Video: Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard’s daily hassles

Traffic, protesters and street vendors are some of the biggest daily headaches for Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard.

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Activists arrested for the murder of Brad Will

Activists arrested for the murder of Brad Will

Two members of the protest movement that activist and videographer Brad Will was covering when he was shot dead more than two years ago have been arrested in connection with his murder.

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Mexico memory march turns violent

Mexico memory march turns violent

Thousands of Mexicans took to the streets yesterday to demand justice for the victims of a mass-killing by Government troops on the night of October 2nd forty years ago. But the protests in Mexico City had a bitter end.

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Mexico to remember massacre 40 years later

Mexico to remember massacre 40 years later

Today, people of all ages will march in memory of a massacre that took place forty years ago in Mexico City – an event that remains one of the darkest in the country’s recent and bloody history.

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Arrests made in Mexico grenade attack raise questions

Arrests made in Mexico grenade attack raise questions

The arrests pose as many questions as they provide answers.

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Morelia: informality characterizes bombing investigation

Morelia: informality characterizes bombing investigation

The most important thing that occurred to me as I’ve perused other media’s coverage, my own, and the scene itself, is how frighteningly informal the attitude of the authorities is to the crime scene itself.

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Video: Mexico Bomb Victim Tells His Story

Video: Mexico Bomb Victim Tells His Story

Rafael Bucio, a 30 year old car-parking attendant, was out with his wife and two small children in Morelia, Mexico on Monday night enjoying the Independence celebrations when two grenades went off.

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