Journalism and Human Rights in Mexico. Consequences of violence against journalists covering political and social issues, 1983-2015
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https://doi.org/10.24137/raeic.3.5.13Keywords:
Mexico, violence, journalists, impunity, causes and consequencesAbstract
In Mexico, for 32 years, various national and international institutions have published a significant number of reports of violence against journalists in the country. This has created a remarkable number of documents that have made possible the exposure of the actual figures on attacks, harassment, killings and even disappearances of journalists throughout Mexico. Yet paradoxically, while the number and diversity of reports published on the subject were increased over the years, so did the number of journalists victims of all forms of violence. So today, while the number of Mexican journalists killed are one of the highest in history and this situation places the country as one of the most dangerous in the world for the practice of the profession, various national and international organizations are exposing the alarming impunity that surrounds such crimes. With this context as a backdrop, the article presented below aims to present the results of an investigation focusing on the documentary analysis of the causes and consequences of violence against the media in the published information itself, as well as in the dynamics of the newsmaking in the country.
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