During the last six years, over 30 journalists have been killed in Mexico. Dozens more have been kidnapped. Manuel Roig-Franzia of the Washington Post Foreign Service details these incedents in the recent article ‘Mexico's Journalists Feel Heavy Hand of Violence’. Here is a brief excerpt.
…Gamaliel López Candanosa seemed an unlikely candidate to join the ranks of disappeared or murdered reporters in Mexico, now the second deadliest country in the world for journalists after Iraq…
…But on the afternoon of May 10 -- after taping a piece that featured him singing with a one-eyed mariachi and reporting live on the birth of conjoined twins -- López and his cameraman, Gerardo Paredes Pérez, vanished…
Read the entire Washington Post online article.
…Gamaliel López Candanosa seemed an unlikely candidate to join the ranks of disappeared or murdered reporters in Mexico, now the second deadliest country in the world for journalists after Iraq…
…But on the afternoon of May 10 -- after taping a piece that featured him singing with a one-eyed mariachi and reporting live on the birth of conjoined twins -- López and his cameraman, Gerardo Paredes Pérez, vanished…
Read the entire Washington Post online article.
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