{"id":1244592,"date":"2022-01-26T18:53:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1244592"},"modified":"2022-01-26T18:53:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:53:36","slug":"journalists-hold-protests-in-55-mexican-cities-to-demand-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/journalists-hold-protests-in-55-mexican-cities-to-demand-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Hold Protests in 55 Mexican Cities to Demand Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjournalists-hold-protests-in-55-mexican-cities-to-demand-protection%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1244592&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Journalist-protest-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Thousands of journalists throughout Mexico held protests in 55 cities after the recent killings of three colleagues to raise awareness on how so few related crimes are solved.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists gathered in town squares and outside of government buildings to demand an end to the violence targeting their peers. The protests come two days after unknown gunmen shot and killed Lourdes Maldonado, a respected journalist in Tijuana. Her murder was the third of its kind in January and the 54<sup>th<\/sup> since President Andres Manuel Lopez took office in December 2018. The figure for journalists killed varies by press freedom organization.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">\u00a1No abusen de nuestras y nuestros ca\u00eddos!<\/p>\n<p>Periodistas asesinados en M\u00e9xico en este sexenio:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/article19mex?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@article19mex<\/a>: 28<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RSF_esp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RSF_esp<\/a>: 26<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPJAmericas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CPJAmericas<\/a>: 14<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pablo_majluf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Pablo_Majluf<\/a>, que dice citar a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/revistaetcetera?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@revistaetcetera<\/a>: 54.<\/p>\n<p>En cuanto a violencia vs periodistas, este gobierno va igual que EPN.<br \/>\u00a1Pero no usen <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dzxnu2Bnsz\">pic.twitter.com\/Dzxnu2Bnsz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 T\u00e9moris Grecko (@temoris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/temoris\/status\/1485805958290980867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Days before Maldonado\u2019s murder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2022\/01\/24\/mexican-journalist-killed-in-tijuana-3rd-instance-of-2022\/\">a gunman shot and killed respected Tijuana photojournalist Margarito Martinez, one week after the fatal stabbing of online journalist Jose Luis Gamboa in Veracruz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two years before her murder, Maldonado traveled to Mexico City to ask Lopez Obrador for physical protection. She claimed that she had a dispute with former Baja California Governor Jaime Bonilla and feared repercussions. Bonilla is from the same party as Lopez Obrador.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ULTIMAHORA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ULTIMAHORA<\/a><br \/>ASESINAN en Tijuana a la periodista Lourdes Maldonado<\/p>\n<p>\u2018VENGO A PEDIR AYUDA. TEMO X MI VIDA\u2019, dijo al Pte <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lopezobrador_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lopezobrador_<\/a> en una <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ma%C3%B1anera?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ma\u00f1anera<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Acababa de ganar un litigio vs el exgobernador Jaime Bonilla. Hoy es la 3era colega asesinada del a\u00f1o<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fs5qJdWf1u\">pic.twitter.com\/fs5qJdWf1u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ruido en la Red (@RuidoEnLaRed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RuidoEnLaRed\/status\/1485466374747168768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to information shared by leading press freedom activists, approximately 90 percent of the crimes against journalists remain unpunished in Mexico. The figures are based on the country\u2019s statistics and go against the claims made by Lopez Obrador that impunity and corruption have ended under his term.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For 3 years, Mexican president <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lopezobrador_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lopezobrador_<\/a> said that \u2018impunity is over\u2019 and that he would \u2018no longer allow\u2019 any killings of journalists. Without meaningful action, his words ring deafeningly hollow as Mexico mourns the death of another murdered journalist today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jan-Albert Hootsen (@jahootsen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jahootsen\/status\/1485625687708999680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, journalists gathered outside of the gubernatorial palace where they held a candlelight vigil. A group for relatives of kidnapped victims and a farmworker union joined the demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>Similar protests took place in Monterrey, Mexico City, and across the nation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">Periodistas de <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Monterrey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Monterrey<\/a> y Noreste de M\u00e9xico se manifestaron en la jornada nacional de protesta contra la impunidad con las que se asesina a colegas. Contra la inacci\u00f3n del gobierno para frenar la violencia. A lo que se suma los ataques de <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lopezobrador_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lopezobrador_<\/a> contra periodistas <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t3JYalGsnH\">pic.twitter.com\/t3JYalGsnH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Juan Alberto Cedillo (@JuanACedillo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuanACedillo\/status\/1486370276912742406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Journalists throughout Mexico shared their photographs from the protests to raise further awareness.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">Exigimos justicia para nuestros colegas y sus familias. \u00a1No m\u00e1s periodistas asesinados! \u00a1No m\u00e1s periodistas desaparecidos! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NiSilencioNiOlvido?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NiSilencioNiOlvido<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoSeMataLaVerdad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoSeMataLaVerdad<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SinMasPeriodistasEnSusListas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SinMasPeriodistasEnSusListas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PeriodismoEnRiesgo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PeriodismoEnRiesgo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iNrdZp0wRK\">pic.twitter.com\/iNrdZp0wRK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IGNACIOMARTINEZ (@IGNACIOMTZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IGNACIOMTZ\/status\/1486189033436897281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby&nbsp;and senior Breitbart management.&nbsp;You can follow him on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IldefonsoOrtiz\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;and on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ildefonso-Ortiz\/731511040246659\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>. He can be contacted at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"mailto:Iortiz@breitbart.com\"><em>Iortiz@breitbart.com<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brandondarby?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><em>and&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brandonmichaeldarby\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>. He can be contacted at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"mailto:bdarby@breitbart.com\"><em>bdarby@breitbart.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of journalists throughout Mexico held protests in 55 cities after the recent killings of three colleagues to raise awareness on how so few related crimes are solved. 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