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Mexico kidnaps bring home reality of drugs war
The kidnap of four journalists in Durango state has made the capital’s elite take notice of the dangers for journalists attempting to work under the shadow of the traffickers. Ana Arana reports The...
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Drug cartels divide the Mexican press
Following Mexican newspaper El Diario’s front-page appeal this week, Ana Arana explains why journalists in Mexico remain split over whether to negotiate with drug cartels “What do you want from us?”,...
View ArticleMexico’s narcomedia takes over
Now the drug cartels make their own news, forcing video confessions of corruption, murder and collaboration at gunpoint. Ana Arana reports The drug war continues to challenge the ways in which news...
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Sex, divorce, censorship and the church
Ana Arana finds out how the producers of Mexican soap operas sidestep government and Church outrage Las Aparicio, a telenovela produced by Argos Comunicacion, the cutting-edge Mexican production house...
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Mexico’s regional press falls silent
A new report shows Mexico’s regional newspapers keep quiet on cartel killings. Ana Arana reports READ MEXICO THE SPIRAL OF SILENCE HERE [PDF] In the last year, foreign and Mexican news reports have...
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Mexican press: Self preservation becomes self censorship
In Mexico drug cartels continue to dictate news agenda and in some areas, have even infiltrated the newsroom. A new investigation by Fundacion MEPI reveals the extent to which news outlets fear of...
View ArticleMexico City topples statue of a former Azerbaijani dictator
Until a couple of months ago, few in Mexico City knew who Heydar Aliyev was, and even fewer of those were aware that a marble and bronze statue erected in his honour sat smack in the middle of Reforma...
View Article“Crime-inducing” miniskirts banned in Mexican border town
Ciudad Acuña, a tiny town on the Mexican side of Del Rio, Texas, has been in the news regularly because of drug-related violence. The town, resides in the state of Coahuila, which has been dominated...
View ArticleGuatemalan newspaper faces cyber attacks after exposing corruption
The Guatemalan daily El Periódico and Fundación MEPI have published an exposé of corruption in the current Guatemalan government. The story, with information and documents gathered during the first...
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In Mexico drug gangs target local journalists
The former journalist asks not to use his real name. So I will call him Francisco. He had been at the height of his career in 2007, in the vibrant city of Torreon, in northern Mexico, when he received...
View ArticleHonduran journalists use sensationalised crime reporting as a safety measure
San Pedro Sula: Colon is prime farming and cattle territory in the Honduran Caribbean coast. Its geography extends across eight thousand plus kilometers through mountains, rivers and thick vegetation....
View ArticleMexico City topples statue of a former Azerbaijani dictator
Until a couple of months ago, few in Mexico City knew who Heydar Aliyev was, and even fewer of those were aware that a marble and bronze statue erected in his honour sat smack in the middle of Reforma...
View ArticleNewspaper offices attacked in Mexico
Another attack targeting the Mexican media was carried out on 29 July. The Monterrey-based offices of the regional daily El Norte, a newspaper owned by the Reforma publishing group, were set on fire by...
View ArticleMexico telecoms reform hits world’s richest man
A new telecommunications reform that was presented in Mexico by the government of Enrique Peña Nieto has been heralded worldwide. The reform bill seeks to amend the Mexican Constitution and will open...
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