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Mexico: Journalists Call for End to Attacks on Media Workers

HeadlineJun 29, 2017

In Mexico City, journalists and their supporters rallied Wednesday outside the National Palace to call on the government to take action to end a spate of attacks on media workers. The protest came as the Committee to Protect Journalists said Mexico is the world’s deadliest country for reporters so far in 2017. This is Mexican investigative reporter Álvaro Delgado.

Álvaro Delgado: “There is a serious crisis of violence against journalists that is not new but has deepened in recent years. It is in the context of the violence that exists in the country, but to a large extent the crisis has worsened by the disdainful and often complicit conduct by the government of Mexico.”

The protest came after the body of journalist Salvador Adame was discovered in the state of Michoacán, more than a month after he was kidnapped. Adame is at least the seventh journalist to be killed in Mexico this year.

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