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10/04/2022
Source: Reuters
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday his administration does not spy on journalists or opponents, when asked about allegations of the use of Pegasus spyware during his government.
A report on Sunday found that phones belonging to two journalists and a human rights defender were infected with Pegasus, which belongs to Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, between 2019 and 2021.
Date: January 27, 2022
Source: The Washington Post
MEXICO CITY — Veteran news reporter María de Lourdes Maldonado López knew there were people who wanted her dead, so she applied for the only protection she knew: an unusual Mexican government program that promised to defend vulnerable journalists with state-funded bodyguards, bulletproof vests and other protection.
Maldonado López seemed certain to qualify. She was a well-known broadcast journalist in Tijuana, where for years she had received threats, including two attacks on her car and multiple promises to hunt her down.
08/11/2021
Source: The Washington Post
Hours after receiving a death threat from a man claiming to be one of Mexico’s most dangerous criminals, the news anchor took to the air again.
At 9:59 p.m. Monday, Milenio Television anchor Azucena Uresti posted a photo of herself smiling, sitting on a desk in an airy dress and impeccable makeup on Twitter and saidshe would be on her news show as usual. A minute later, the broadcast began.
8/31/15 Yahoo News
Mexican authorities on Sunday arrested a former police officer in connection with the brutal slaying of a prominent photojournalist and four others in a case that sparked international outrage.
Police arrested a man “identified as Abraham Torres Tranquilino” for alleged involvement in the killing of Ruben Espinosa, rights activist Nadia Vera and three other female victims, Mexico City prosecutor Rodolfo Rios said in a statement.
Espinosa and the other victims were found dead on July 31 this year in a Mexico City apartment, their hands bound and their bodies bearing signs of torture.
Torres, 24, worked as a police officer in the capital until 2011, when he was arrested and convicted of torture in a separate case. He went on to serve about a year in jail. Authorities on August 4 arrested Daniel Pacheco Gutierrez, also an ex-convict, in the latest case.
Associated Press, 11/4/09
A news reporter who wrote about violent drug crimes has been strangled in the northern Mexican state of Durango, authorities said Tuesday.
El Tiempo de Durango journalist Jose Bladimir Antuna was kidnapped Monday morning, said Ruben Lopez, spokesman for the state Attorney General’s Office. Authorities found his body that night in a vacant lot in the state capital, about 400 miles southwest of Laredo, Texas.
State authorities are investigating the murder. Lopez would not specify whether they suspected connections with organized crime.
The Associated Press, 2/17/2009
Mexican journalists demanded an investigation Monday into the death of a crime photographer gunned down while riding a motorcycle to an assignment.
Photographer Jean Paul Ibarra and reporter Yenny Marchan were on their way to the morgue in the southern city of Iguala when gunmen on another motorcycle came alongside and opened fire, according to the Guerrero state police. Marchan received two bullet wounds but survived; Ibarra was killed.
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