New law to protect journalists in Mexico proving to be ineffective against cartels
Balbina Flores Martínez, Mexico correspondent for the international press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders received threats against her live on March 12. (Still from the documentary Reporters Against Silence) This is the third and final part of our series called […]
New law to protect journalists in Mexico proving to be ineffective against cartels
By Alex A. Ormaza and Julieta G. Pelcastre
Balbina Flores Martínez, Mexico correspondent for the international press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders received threats against her live on March 12. (Still from the documentary Reporters Against Silence) This is the third and final part of our series called […]
Cartels kidnap and free Mexican editor Luis Cardona whose mission today is to find missing journalists
Luis Cardona was the editor of OEM newspapers in Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, when in August 2012 he was kidnapped by armed men who after torturing him forced him to
‘Reporters against Silence’ debuts at University of Mexico
The Ecuadorian journalist, Alex Ormaza (L) during the presentation of his documentary "Reporters Against Silence" at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), November 15th. After the documentary, the
Special Report: Dozens of Mexican journalists missing, displaced and killed
“They have a gag on Mexico,” said Mario Alberto Segura, a displaced journalist who works as a clown to survive in the country’s capital. In Mexico, organized crime and some
Special Report: Reporters against Silence
The Baltimore Post-Examiner is pleased to showcase Alex Ormaza's documentary - Reporters against Silence. Ormaza, a Fulbright Scholar with more than two decades of journalism experience in bilingual, multicultural and