Mexico: journalists demonstrate after the assassination of a colleague

Around fifty Mexican journalists demonstrated on Saturday following the assassination of their colleague Roberto Carlos Figueroa Bustos, whose body was found Friday in the state of Morelos (center), according to local media.

“We strongly condemn the horrible murder of our comrade (…) His assassination represents a new example of the terrible violence that reigns in Morelos, a state where no one is safe,” declared the journalists who demonstrated in Cuernavaca, capital of this state located south of Mexico. The journalist, director of the online media Acá en El Show, followed by some 10,000 people on Facebook, published content of a political nature. His body was found in his car in Coajomulco, in the state of Morelos, with that of another man, according to local press.

The journalist “was deprived of his freedom and his relatives received a call demanding a ransom. Although she was paid, he was found dead,” denounced the press defense organization Artículo 19 on the social network X.

156 journalists murdered in Mexico since 1995

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) told AFP that it was seeking further details on this assassination. The press defense NGO on Friday asked the three candidates in the June 2 presidential election in Mexico, one of the most dangerous countries in the world for the press, to commit to protecting journalists in the event of victory.

According to RSF, at least 37 journalists were assassinated during the five and a half years of President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador’s mandate which will end on October 1. And since 1995, at least 156 journalists have been murdered for investigating organized crime, insecurity and drug trafficking, according to the same Source.

AFP

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