“They must end the privileges of those who come to power under the assumption that they are the owners and masters of the country, which, according to them, they can sell to the highest bidder with impunity.”
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Journalist and blogger Judith Torrea visited City of Asylum in March 2015 to read from Juarez in Shadows: Chronicle of a City that Refuses to Die.
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Judith Torrea is a journalist living in Ciudad Juárez, one of the most violent places in the world. Here is an excerpt from her book, Juárez in Shadows: Chronicle of a City that Refuses to Die.
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In the tenth installment of The Freedom Chat, we talk to award-winning journalist Alfredo Corchado Jimenez, who is renowned for his coverage of corruption and drug cartels in the U.S. and Mexico.
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In this interview filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz talks about REPORTERO, a documentary on press freedom inside Mexico, meeting and following the real “characters” in his film, and the history of violence on reporters in Mexico.
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Drug trafficking, and the violence it engenders, is Guatemala’s latest threat to freedom of speech. In her exclusive letter for Sampsonia Way, elPeriódico’s Claudia Méndez Arriaza uses her inside-the-newsroom perspective to compare the risk of being a journalist today with the risks of reporting during Guatemala’s bloody civil war.
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On September 1st two female journalists connected to the political magazine, Contralinea, were found murdered in a Mexico City park. According to Reporters Without Borders, eighty journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000.
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