Mexico is known as a great country that uses its music, its food and its cheerful character. However, places like Ciudad Juárez and other points of their geography have become famous over the years for the permanent murders of women or journalists.
What do politicians do to solve this record problem?
In 2022, Lourdes Maldonado, a journalist who had worked for a media called Half stand, A company, apparently owned by the former state governor, Jaime Bonilla. Apparently, according to herself she confessed after sueing said medium for inadmissible dismissal, she felt threatened and in danger of death. This journalist in 2019, that is, three years before his murder, at a press conference he told him, at that time president of Mexico López Obrador, who feared for his life. Shortly after peeling it a lot in the offices, the journalist was included in the mechanism of protection of journalists and human rights defenders, which includes alarms for the places where they reside and when considered, personal escorts. Although in your case it was totally failed.
According to the BBC, on January 17, 2022, a Mexican photojournalist, his friend Margarito Martínez was killed how much he was introduced into his vehicle. He was shot in the neck that ended his life. The next day, on the 18th of that same month, Lourdes Maldonado dedicated his radio and television program to said journalist, stating: «For all of us it has been a shock (…). In the microsecond that he opened the door (of his car) and bent down to leave his material, Pum, they shot him in his head. If that is not planned and is not hunted, I don’t know how you would call it (…). We are all demanding that your murder will not be unpunished “.
Four days later, at 6:20 p.m. on a laconic Sunday, according to police sources, a hitman shot Lourdes Maldonado three times, ending his life. Neither President López Obrador, nor the human rights defender of Mexico served at all. Who ordered his death? Who bothered? Who investigated his death? The answers are always negative.
What happened with Lourdes Maldonado happened in Trujillo, one of the most infamous provinces of that country. But the figure does not stay there. For the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, from 2000 to 2012 about 80 were killed; Other sources affirm that from 1980 until today more than 300 have been killed. Reporters without borders states that only in 2022, the year Maldonado died a journalist killed every week. In addition, Mexico has been designated as one of the most dangerous countries in the world to exercise this profession. At present, even above Ukraine or the Gaza Strip.
In 2023, jump to the international press the kidnapping by drug cartels, in the state of Zacateca, of seven young people between 14 to 18 years. Shortly after the corpses of six of them were found. The clashes between the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation posters have a homicide rate in the aforementioned state of 87 people per 100,000 inhabitants. Only in the first months of 2023 they carried the figure of half a thousand homicides.
With López Obrador, possibly one of the most inept presidents of the Mexican country, about 73 murders, three violations and about 25 missing were produced. In last year, 2024 43,118 people were killed, in 23 about 42,100, in 22 they reached 42,885. These figures demonstrate the inefficiency of Mexican politicians to remedy what would clearly be a terrible scandal, if international authorities did not look at other conflicts whose propaganda reports better image revenues.
But the problem, according to all the sources consulted, and the complaints of different NGOs are even more terrifying if we enter the territory of gender violence, where women raped or murdered grow in excessive percentages, it is also estimated that more than 100,000 people are in missing and on many of them it is believed that they have simply been killed and are buried somewhere in the extensive territory.
Without a doubt, Mexico is today a failed state, where, no matter how much politicians, corruption and chaos dominate the public life of society. The cartels control various areas of the country and many of their leaders, in addition, with the security forces bought they can do and undo at will; being constantly violated human rights without any shame. The price of life in that country is undoubtedly quite low.
For all this, we are not surprised that the exercise of the journalistic profession in that country is so dangerous. We only have to reflect and that international organizations begin to realize the suffering of some peoples where the anarchy Campa at ease in some parts of the country.
Originally published at LaDamadeElche.com
