Rosa Icela Rodriguezowner of the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), reported that in six cases of murdered journalists there is a total of 21 arrested.
In the morning conference held in National Palace, Rodriguez Velazquez He pointed out that none of the investigation folders regarding the murders of journalists is closed.
Of the six cases there are 21 arrests or links, these people are behind bars, carrying out the corresponding criminal trial in all cases,” he declared.
the owner of SSPC He affirmed that they are already looking for five other journalists implicated in homicides, for which they are already rewarding their capture.
There are people we are looking for, they have been identified, there are rewards in some cases and we are following the investigations. In all cases there is progress,” the federal official pointed out.
“Of the pending ones that we lack, we have been following the investigations and it is a work of all the instances of the Security Cabinet with the local instances”, he pointed out.
According to a report presented by the organization Article 19the violence once morest the press in Mexico increased by 85 percent in the first three years of the Government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorcompared to the first three years of Enrique Peña Nieto’s mandate (2012-2018).
The document also stated that since Lopez Obrador came to power in December 2018, there have been 33 murders of journalists, two disappearances and a total of 1,945 attacks.
A total of 644 attacks once morest the press were documented in 2021, that is, one every 14 hours. In addition, at least one attack on the press was detailed for the first time in each of the country’s 32 states.
Last year, Mexican authorities were involved in two out of every five attacks once morest the press.
The organization also highlighted in the analysis that there is a refusal on the part of the authority to recognize the situation of the union in the Latin American country, which continues to be the most dangerous in the world to practice journalism.
With information from López-Dóriga Digital and EFE
