EFE.- At least seven journalists were murdered in Mexico in the exercise of their work in 2024, the third highest number in the world, only behind 18 from Palestine and eight from Pakistan, the United Nations Organization for Human Rights reported this Thursday. Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO).
“In Mexico, seven murders of journalists were recorded in 2024, the same number recorded in 2023. The last case of 2024 incorporated into the Observatory was that of journalist Patricia Ramírez González (in Colima, on October 30),” the organization indicated. in a statement.
In contrast, he recalled that the country recorded 19 murders of journalists in 2022.
In addition to Ramírez González, the Observatory of Murdered Journalists documented in 2024 the deaths of Roberto Figueroa, director of the medium in ‘Acá en el Show’, on April 26 in Morelos, and the discovery on June 12 of the body of Víctor Manuel Jímenez , who had been missing in Guanajuato for four years.
It also recorded the murder of Víctor Alfonso Culebro, director of the ‘Realidades’ portal, on June 28 in Chiapas; of Alejandro Martínez Noguez, creator of ‘The Son of the Lone Ranger’, on August 4 in Guanajuato, and of Enrique Hernández, a journalist from Guerrero who appeared in a clandestine grave on August 31.
The list is completed by Mauricio Cruz Solís, founder of the portal ‘Minuto X Minuto Michoacán’, murdered on October 29.
With this, Mexico accounted for almost one in 10 homicides of journalists in 2024, when UNESCO counted 68 worldwide.
UNESCO reiterated that towards the commemoration of National Journalist’s Day in Mexico this January 4, “the country has the opportunity to continue promoting recognition of the work of journalists as essential to achieving common well-being.”
“And with this, strengthen due process and attention to crimes against journalists, mitigate risks, improve their working conditions and strengthen the investigation work of the murders and their diligence,” he considered.
Despite the panorama in Mexico, the organization highlighted that estimates suggest “that progress may have been made in the fight against attacks on journalists,” since Latin America and the Caribbean recorded 12 murders in 2024, compared to 18 in 2023 and 43 in 2022.
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