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Part of protest in Mexico City against the killing of three photojournalists.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mexico is becoming an increasingly dangerous place to be a journalist<\/strong>. Three photojournalists were found dead <\/a>and dismembered Tuesday in the Gulf state of Veracruz, bringing to 44 the number of journalists killed in Mexico in the last six years, according to Article 19<\/a>, a press freedom group.<\/p>\n

While that number pales next to the more than 50,000 Mexicans killed <\/strong>in the same period during the government’s war against the narco cartels (and cross-cartel fighting), it elevates Mexico to No. 8 on the Committee to Protect Journalists’ <\/a>2012 Impunity Index<\/a>, “which spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free.” Sadly, the year is still young.<\/p>\n

Here’s what CPJ says about Veracruz:<\/p>\n

… a battleground for the Zetas and Sinaloa cartels,\u00a0is one of Mexico’s most dangerous states for the press<\/strong>, according to CPJ research. Four journalists were murdered<\/a> there in 2011, and on Saturday, the body of journalist Regina Mart\u00ednez P\u00e9rez<\/a> was found strangled in her home in Xalapa.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have a long history with Mexico, including being the owner of a house<\/a> I built there, but with many Mexicans clamoring for an end to the violence, the repressive PRI party on the verge of regaining the control of the presidency<\/strong> that it held for more than 70 years; the cartels becoming increasingly entrenched in local and national politics, and a the country’s always ethically tenuous journalistic institutions fighting — quite literally — for their lives, I fear the worst for the country in the near term.<\/p>\n

You think I’m being overly dramatic? Read this story<\/a> about the threats against Jorge Medell\u00edn, a reporter for the national newspaper Milenio. An excerpt:<\/p>\n

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Mexican journalists take the smallest hint of a threat seriously because they know that killing a reporter is so easy to get away with<\/strong>. The word for this is impunity–killing with no consequences. None for the killer, at least. But the consequences for the Mexican people are that journalists are afraid to report the news.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Learn more: New York Times story<\/a> on the latest killings; Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a>; Article 19<\/a>; Coverage in El Universal<\/a>, a centrist paper from Mexico City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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