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Journalists Murdered in Mexico and Honduras
 Roy Greenslade - Guardian UK
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March 22, 2010
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Still more journalists are being murdered in Mexico, making it the most dangerous country for reporters in 2010. Drug cartels appear to be killing journalists with impunity.
Ten days ago Evaristo Pacheco Solís, 33, a reporter for the weekly Visión Informativa, was shot dead in Chilpancingo, the state capital of Guerrero.
He was the fourth journalist killed in Mexico this year, though the Inter-American Press Association believes a fifth was recently killed in the border city of Reynosa. Media outlets are said to be too afraid to file a police report. In addition, five journalists have been reported as kidnapped.
International Press Institute spokesman Anthony Mills said: "As journalist after journalist is slain there, the Mexican population – who stand at the forefront of the government's violent conflict with drug cartels – are being deprived of their right to information, and courageous Mexican journalists are being brutally deprived of their right to inform."
That same could be said of Honduras, which is now the second most dangerous country for journalists. Three have been killed in the central American republic this month.
Nahúm Palacios Arteaga, 36, the news director for television channel Canal 5 in Aguán and host of a news programme on Radio Tocoa, was shot dead six days ago.
His death came soon after the shooting of David Meza Montesinos, a reporter at radio station El Patio in La Ceiba. On 1 March, journalism student Joseph Hernández Ochoa, 24, died after a gang fired on his car.
Honduras has seen a steep increase in violence since the coup d'état in June last year.
Sources: IPI/IFEX/AP |
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