Articles by Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social
Shots fired at community radio journalists’ homes
(ARTICLE 19/CENCOS/IFEX) – The following is an excerpt of a 28 July 2008 joint press release by AMARC, CENCOS, ARTICLE 19 and RSF: Shots fired at community radio journalists’ homes Organisations call on Oaxaca government to provide protection for members of Radio Zaachila, and punish the assailants Mexico City, 28 July 2008 – We, the […]
Newspaper director pressured by ministerial police in Aguascalientes to reveal source for murder story
(ARTICLE 19/CENCOS/IFEX) – Alejandro González Muñoz, director of “El Circo”, an Aguascalientes-based newspaper focusing on political news and crime, is being pressured by ministry authorities to reveal the name of a source. Aguascalientes is a state in western Mexico. The journalist reports that on 2 July 2008, at around 7:00 p.m. (local time), he arrived […]
Indigenous radio station in Guerrero raided by armed federal agents attempting to close it, threatened with further intervention
(ARTICLE 19/CENCOS/IFEX) – At midday on 10 July 2008, personnel from the Federal Investigations Agency (Agencia Federal de Investigación, AFI), the Communications and Transport Secretariat (Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes, SCT) and the ministerial police (policía ministerial) attempted to dismantle the radio station Radio Ñomndaa (“Ñomndaa” is the word for water in the Amuzga language) […]
Two journalists assaulted by military during operations in Oaxaca
(ARTICLE 19/CENCOS/IFEX) – At dawn on 21 June 2008, journalists Omar Gasga and Antonio García were assaulted when they followed a military and police convoy to cover the convoys’ information-gathering operations in Santa María Huatulco, Oaxaca state, southeast Mexico. Gasga, a correspondent for Quadratin information and analysis agency, which is based in Oaxaca, as well […]
Journalist threatened with murder after critical reporting on municipal programme official in Chiapas
(ARTICLE 19/CENCOS/IFEX) – Rafael Velasco Salas, deputy director of the bimonthly publication “Zona Norte” and correspondent in Chiapas for the Oaxaca-based newspaper “Noticias, Voz e Imagen”, was assaulted and threatened with murder by Humberto Cernuda Hernández, brother of Josefa Cernuda – the president of the Family Services Unit (Desarrollo Integral de la Familia, DIF) of […]
Recent assault on journalist another in a series of unsolved cases of attacks on media personnel in Nayarit state
(ARTICLE 19/CENCOS/IFEX) – ARTICLE 19 and CENCOS condemn the recent attack on Luis Guardado Negrete, sub-director of the “Noticias de Bahía” regional newspaper. They also express their concern about the general climate of impunity that prevails in cases involving violations of the right to free expression in the Bahía de Banderas municipality of Nayarit state, […]
Chihuahua journalist alerted to murder plot, subjected to weeks of military harassment following critical reporting, seeks asylum in US
(ARTICLE 19/CENCOS/IFEX) – Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, whose residence was searched by military personnel in May 2008 and who has subsequently been harassed by members of the Army, has sought asylum in the United States, fearing for his life and that of his son. The correspondent for the regional newspaper “El Diario del Noroeste” in […]
Journalists assaulted by police, one injured, while covering demonstration in Nuevo León
(ARTICLE 19/CENCOS/IFEX) – Local police assaulted journalists covering a demonstration by members of the community demanding greater safety in the San Antonio neighbourhood of the city of Benito Juárez, in Nuevo León state, northern Mexico. The assaults took place in the early hours of 18 June 2008. For over four hours, local residents of the […]