Periodicidio or Mexican Journalicide

"The certainty of death is also the certainty of an absence of a State of Law and rights in Mexico. It is the homicide of legality. It means living in Comala where each and everyone of us become ghosts under an authoritarian entity that hasn't noticed, it's already dead too." [source]
he same day Javier Valdez was killed, two other people were also gunned down: Sonia Córdova and her son, Hector Jonathan Rodríguez, both journalists in Jalisco. While Jonathan died, Sonia remains in a delicate condition at the hospital.

According to the Office Against Freedom of Expression: "From 2010 to 2016 that office received 798 complaints of aggressions against journalists, securing just three jail sentences, a 99.7 percent impunity rate. [source]

Then this:



Really? Is this the same man who banned journalist Carmen Aristegui from MVS? Is this a game of visibility? One where grave actions are acknowledged under the media then, once again, over time, left unpunished under a perverse state that wants to let us know who speaks or not in this country?

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