Mexicali journalists and activists demand justice from the FGE offices the most read

"Neither silence nor forgetting" as part of "journalism at risk;National mobilization ”, members of the Mexicali journalistic guild, joined the coordinated demonstration in several municipalities of the country, to demand justice for the crimes committed in this month of January, against press workers, whose lives were violently takenWhen they were in their respective homes.

The cases of Lourdes Maldonado López and Margarito Martínez Esquive.

Mexico has become the most violent country to exercise the profession, with 148 homicides of reporters from 2001 to date, 12 of them women.Trend that did not improve with the arrival of the fourth transformation, 28 journalist workers have killed so far from the administration.

Around 6 p.m. on Tuesday, January 25, representatives of the Mexicali journalistic guildHis work for preserving the lives of those in charge of generating information to society.

Photo: Cristian Torres

From the offices of the State Attorney General (FGE) in Mexicali, the Basacalifornian capital, representatives of local, independent and national media, of large chains or digital media of little reach, elbow were planted elbow and denounced the lack ofguarantees to exercise journalism for the omissions committed by the authorities.

Cristian Torres Cruz demonstrated as spokesmen of the collective;Jorge Heras and Dulce María Díaz Fuentes.

Torres Cruz, a photojournalist of Zeta, and a reporter at Radarbc, recalled that in addition to the 148 murders since 2001, during 2021 at the national level, 38 aggressions against women were documented while developing their journalistic work.On the other hand, he said that Lourdes Maldonado had requested the protection of the mechanism and still lost his life.

"They need to get it out of the state government to assume responsibility for an autonomous entity as the Human Rights Commission, although we know that the commission has been back on the subject," said Heras Lavoe, from the Northern Lindero portal, on theneed for the Executive Power to cease to be in charge of coordinating the "mechanism for the protection of journalists and human rights defenders".

Dulce María Díaz, from La Voz de la Frontera, said that “despite the entire protocol that had a panic and surveillance button, this issue occurred (the murder of Lourdes), through all the companions and colleagues in the mediaWe demand that this is not unpunished ".

The protest was accompanied by some activists who joined the protests with banners and candles to remember the memory of the companions killed during the first month of 2022.