Tag: "crime"

Video: Jesus as a migrant in pro-immigration street theater

Video: Jesus as a migrant in pro-immigration street theater

| April 6, 2009 | Comments (1)

The performance wasn’t part of Mexico’s traditional Semana Santa but had a cross-border purpose.

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Talking violence in Texas

Talking violence in Texas

| April 2, 2009 | Comments (3)

Last week, I was invited to speak at the University of Texas Pan America about MexicoReporter.com, violence against journalists, the drug war coverage and how new technologies are contributing to the journalism beast. So I went.

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Video: Peter Gabriel asks for political will to end impunity over Ciudad Juarez’s dead women

Video: Peter Gabriel asks for political will to end impunity over Ciudad Juarez’s dead women

| March 30, 2009 | Comments (1)

Peter Gabriel implored President Calderon to show “real political will, muscle and budget” in investigating the hundreds of unsolved murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez.

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Video: Narcocorridos inspire Mexico City mural

Video: Narcocorridos inspire Mexico City mural

| March 19, 2009 | Comments (0)

After writing a song for los Tigres Del Norte about the controversial 670-mile fence project along the U.S.-Mexico border, Cristina Rubalcava got to listening to some of the band’s narcocorridos and created a mural that illustrates phrases from them.

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Photojournalism show explains 2008 in Mexico

Photojournalism show explains 2008 in Mexico

| March 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

Mexico City’s Museo de la Ciudad is playing host to a photojournalism exhibition — Expofotoperiodismo — that features nearly 50 photos from 2008.

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Video: Legal graffiti hits the walls of Mexico City

Video: Legal graffiti hits the walls of Mexico City

| March 6, 2009 | Comments (0)

In a country with such a rich artistic heritage of mural-ism, graffiti is a popular past-time for many of Mexico´s youth.

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Mexico's media under scrutiny in documentary

Mexico's media under scrutiny in documentary

| February 24, 2009 | Comments (1)

Violence against journalists in Mexico is nothing new but “Voces Silenciadas” broadens the debate around the persecution of journalists to encompass the bigger issues of media ownership and the relationship between the media and Mexico’s political powers.

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Mexico's special prosecutor for crimes against journalists ineffective, reports nonprofit

Mexico's special prosecutor for crimes against journalists ineffective, reports nonprofit

| February 16, 2009 | Comments (1)

Freedom of expression advocates in Mexico have issued yet another missive in support of the country’s long-suffering journalistic community.

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Violence against journalists continues in Latin America

Violence against journalists continues in Latin America

| February 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

We keep our eye on the frequent press-freedom reports that come out, given the high levels of violence against journalists in Mexico. Tuesday’s release by the Committee to Protect Journalists, sadly, held no surprises.

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Video: Carmen Aristegui talks about the reality for journalists in Mexico

Video: Carmen Aristegui talks about the reality for journalists in Mexico

| February 6, 2009 | Comments (2)

Carmen Aristegui, one of Mexico’s most prominent journalists, disappeared from the Mexican radio airwaves last year in a cloud of controversy.

As Reed Johnson reported in January 2008, “Aristegui’s departure from W Radio set off a flurry of op-ed commentary in Mexico City newspapers. Several commentators have denounced the incident as an act of censorship and harassment by media and governmental interests.”

Now Aristegui’s back with a new radio news show –- this time on a different network. The journalist, who continued to host her nightly television news show on CNN Español during her radio hiatus, returns to the Mexican airwaves from 6 – 10 every weekday morning on MVS Radio.

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Video: Carmen Aristegui habla sobre la realidad en México para los periodistas

Video: Carmen Aristegui habla sobre la realidad en México para los periodistas

| February 6, 2009 | Comments (0)

Para ver la entrevista completa (40 minutos), haz click aquí.

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Mexico's missing children inspire artist

Mexico's missing children inspire artist

| February 5, 2009 | Comments (0)

Lieberman spent more than three years working on 100 drawings that are intricate copies of often bad-quality newspaper photographs of missing children, taken from the Mexican newspaper Metro.

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Anti-piracy campaign targets cinema-goers

Anti-piracy campaign targets cinema-goers

| February 4, 2009 | Comments (1)

Take a trip to the cinema in Mexico anytime soon and you’ll probably see an ad campaign that scolds the Mexican public for buying pirated movies.

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Lydia Cacho publishes manual for parents on detecting child abuse

Lydia Cacho publishes manual for parents on detecting child abuse

| January 12, 2009 | Comments (1)

Lydia Cacho’s celebrity was apparent from the get-go last Thursday night in the trendy Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, where the journalist launched her new book “Not With My Child” (Con Mi Hij@ No).

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Video: Central American migrants face more hurdles

Video: Central American migrants face more hurdles

| December 13, 2008 | Comments (1)

A group of Honduran men and women came to Mexico looking for their missing loved ones earlier this year. They claim that there are nearly 600 Honduran migrants who are missing in Mexico who disappeared whilst crossing Mexico to get to the United States.

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Death penalty advertisements in Mexico

Death penalty advertisements in Mexico

| December 11, 2008 | Comments (0)

You see some strong stuff on the streets of Mexico City ans this month was no different: an advertising campaign from Mexico’s Green Party demanding the return of the death penalty to the country.

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Mexico should pay attention to International Anti-Corruption Day

Mexico should pay attention to International Anti-Corruption Day

| December 9, 2008 | Comments (0)

Mexicans might be encouraged to do a bit of soul-searching today by a United Nations campaign, which has declared December 9th International Anti-Corruption Day.

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Media advertising campaign targets violence against journalists

Media advertising campaign targets violence against journalists

| December 4, 2008 | Comments (3)

A television, radio and print advertising campaign is to launch here in Mexico in an attempt by press freedom groups to raise public awareness about violence against journalists.

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Video: Crimes Against Dogs in Mexico City

Video: Crimes Against Dogs in Mexico City

| November 27, 2008 | Comments (0)

When thieves brandishing handguns broke into Ignacio Villanueva’s bulldog breeding kennels on the outskirts of Mexico City, it wasn’t the safe they were after but Cinderella, Titiana, Adelita and a handful of other dogs and puppies.

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45 journalists killed in Mexico since 2000; rights body appeals for end to impunity

45 journalists killed in Mexico since 2000; rights body appeals for end to impunity

| November 24, 2008 | Comments (1)

Mexico’s National Commission of Human Rights appealed to authorities over the weekend to investigate thoroughly the recent killings of a number of journalists here, and to put an end to the impunity for those who murder members of the profession.

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Media non-profit appeals for asylum for journalists escaping Mexico

Media non-profit appeals for asylum for journalists escaping Mexico

| November 20, 2008 | Comments (2)

Reporters Without Borders issued an appeal to the international community today to provide asylum for journalists fleeing Mexican cities such a Ciudad Juarez.

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Journalist flees Ciudad Juarez to the U.S

Journalist flees Ciudad Juarez to the U.S

| November 20, 2008 | Comments (2)

Jorge Luis Aguirre, director of the news website “La Polaka,” has fled Mexico with his family to the United States after receiving death threats in his home city of Ciudad Juárez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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