Knight Center map of threats against journalism in Mexico

0: Boca del Río, Veracruz (05/03/2012)

Four media workers, Gabriel Huge, Guillermo Luna, Irasema Becerra, and Esteban Rodríguez, were found dismembered in Boca del Río on Thursday, May 3, 2012.

1: Xalapa, Veracruz (04/28/2012)

Journalist Regina Martínez, correspondent for the Mexican newsmagazine Proceso, was found strangled to death in her home on Saturday, April 28, reported the BBC News.

2: Matamoros, Tamaulipas (03/25/2012)

On Sunday, Mar. 25, a grenade exploded in front of the headquarters of Mexican television network Televisa in the border city of Matamoros. The attack caused only material damage.

3: Ciudad Victoria (03/19/2012)

A car bomb exploded in front of the newspaper Expresso, the most widely distributed newspaper in Ciudad Victoria on Monday, Mar. 19, 2012. The explosion caused material damage, but did not leave anyone hurt.

4: Mexicali, Baja California (02/23/2012)

Assailants beat and left unconscious the political journalist Antonio Heras on Thursday, Feb. 23 in this border city, reported the newspaper La Jornada.

5: Cadereyta, Nuevo León (01/06/2012)

6: Saltillo, Coahuila (12/16/2011)

7: Chilapancingo, Guerrero (12/12/2011)

8: Culiacán, Sinaloa (11/25/2011)

9: Córdoba, Veracruz (11/19/2011)

10: Zacatecas (11/15/2011)

Two workers for El Financiero, Osvaldo García Íñiguez and a driver, José Ortiz Parra, were reported missing Nov. 14 as they were leaving the state of Zacatecas.

11: Torreón, Coahuila (11/15/2011)

Torreón, Coahuila (11/15/2011)
The main office of the newspaper El Siglo de Torreón were attacked. An armed groupset fire to a car outside the offices Nov. 15.

12: Córdoba, Veracruz (11/6/2011)

13: Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas (09/24/2011)

Journalist María Elizabeth Macías Castro, editor-in-chief of Primera Hora, was found decapitated in Nueva Laredo on Saturday, September 24. Next to her, was a letter with the letter Z (referring to the Zetas cartel) that accused her of making anonymous complaints on the site Nuevo Laredo Vivo under the pseudonym, La Nena de Laredo.

14: Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas (09/21/2011)

Reporter Miguel Segura, of El Sol del Sur Tampico, was assaulted and detained by police, while covering the expulsion of street vendors in Ciudad Madero. His newspaper sued the mayor for these attacks and denounced the threats.

15: Acayucan, Veracruz (09/18/2011)

Nineteen-year-old Manuel Gabriel Fonseca, a reporter for the newspaper, El Mañanero, located in Acayucan, Veracruz, was reported missing by his family since September 18, 2011.

16: Iztapalapa, Mexico City (09/01/2011)

Journalists Marcela and Rocío González Tráoaga are found dead in the borough of Iztapalapa, in Mexico City. Yarce worked for the newspaper Contralínea and González was a freelance journalist.

17: Culiacán, Sinaloa (08/24/2011)

Broadcaster and political columnist Humberto Millán is kidnapped by an armed group after leaving the radio station where he worked. A day later, authorities found his body in an agricultural field.

18: Morelia, Michoacán (08/05/2011)

Journalist Yuri Galván Quesada, of the Provincia newspaper, reported that he was illegally arrested while investigating allegations of corruption in a health center in Morelia.

19: Veracruz, Veracruz (07/26/2011)

Journalist Yolanda Orda, who had been missing for 48 hours, was found dead in Veracruz, Mexico, July 26. Ordaz, who covered police issues for Notiver. She had received threats after beginning to investigate the June 20 killing of her boss, journalist Miguel Ángel López.

20: Tianguistenco, State of Mexico (07/03/2011)

Mexican journalist Ángel Castillo Corona, a columnist for the digital newspaper Portal, was killed along with his teen-age son, early Sunday morning, July 3, during a presumed robbery while driving in the city of Tianguistenco in Mexico State. According to the police investigation, Castillo was beaten to death, as was his 16-year-old son. Analysts said the brutality that was used to kill the journalist and his son casts doubt on the theory that this was about a robbery."

21: Veracruz, Veracruz (06/20/2011)

Journalist Miguel Ángel López Velasco, a security and drug trafficking expert, was killed in his home with his wife and son in the eastern port city of Veracruz. López wrote a column focusing on crime issues for Notiver newspaper, one of the most widely-circulated dailies in the region.

22: Huatabampo, Sonora (06/13/2011)

Pablo Ruelas Barraza, 38 years old, was shot while resisting a kidnapping attempt Huatabampo, Sonora.The journalist, who had been unemployed for several months, had received death threats from criminal groups and state authorities.

23: Chinameca, Veracruz (06/01/2011)

The Mexican police found the body of journalist Noel López Olguín in a clandestine grave in Chinameca, Veracruz. The journalist disappeared March 8, presumably kidnapped by drug traffickers.

24: Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (05/30/2011)

Reporters Pablo Hernández and Ismael Villagómez of the Mexican newspaper Norte were attacked and arrested by city police while covering a police raid on pirated merchandise,

25: Saltillo, Coahuila (05/29/2011)

A grenade was launched against the offices of the newspaper Vanguardia, in Saltillo, in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. No one was injured, but the newspaper suffered material damages, according to CNN México.

26: Monterrey, Nuevo León (03/31/2011)

For the third time since September, a division of Grupo Reforma-owned newspaper El Norte was hit with a grenade in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey

27: Monterrey, Nuevo León (03/25/2011)

Two journalists are killed. TV host José Luis Cerda of the Televisa network is found assassinated, shot to death after being kidnapped outside the Televisa offices.Cerda was killed along with 20-year-old photographer Luis Emmanuel Ruiz Carrillo, winner of the state prize for journalism in the northern state of Coahuila, who was filming a documentary about Cerda for his university thesis.

28: Acapulco, Guerrero (03/25/2011)

The newspaper El Sur de Acapulco receives telephone threats against editor Juan Angulo. As a precaution, no newspaper employees work in the office that day.

29: Soteapan, Veracruz (03/08/2011)

Noel López Olguín, a contributor to the local weeklies Horizonte and Noticias de Acayucán, and La Verdad newspaper, disappears after receiving a phone call and advising that he was going to “sort out a problem." The main hypothesis is that he was kidnapped by an armed group.

30: Saltillo, Coahuila (03/04/2011)

Cameraman, Milton Martinez, of the channel Televisa, was arrested and beaten by state police while covering a clash between criminals and police.

31: Hermosillo, Sonora (02/28/2011)

El Imparcial photographer Julián Ortega was threatened and assaulted by officers searching for shooters who had killed a pair of police moments earlier.

32: Cuernavaca, Morelos (02/25/2011)

Attackers fire on a truck carrying an Associated Press correspondent and a publicist for Radio Fórmula. Radio Fórmula’s Marco Antonio Vallejo is shot in the leg, and AP reporter Oswald Alonso is uninjured

33: Oaxaca, Oaxaca (02/15/11)

Radio Rama journalist Gildardo Mota was shot in the leg and two photographers were injured while covering a confrontation between police and the professors who were protesting Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s visit.

34: Torreón, Coahuila (02/09/2011)

An armed group attacked the facilities of two media outlets, Grupo Multimedios and Radiorama, and shot to death a worker, identified as Rodolfo Ochoa, a technician for Grupo Multimedios.

35: Monterrey, Nuevo León (02/06/2011)

Televisa cameraman Juan César Martínez is hit in the face, and his equipment confiscated by members of the federal police as he was covering a confrontation between the authorities and armed gang members.

36: Acapulco, Guerrero (01/19/2011)

At least five cities in the southern state of Guerrero receive hundreds of fake copies of the newspaper La Jornada de Guerrero with front pages designed to discredit a gubernatorial candidate in the state.

37: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (01/11/2011)

An armed group fires shots and throws a grenade at the offices of the newspaper El Norte. No one is injured, but windows were broken and the exterior of the building damaged.

38: Piedras Negras, Coahuila (01/08/2011)

Attackers launched at least two grenades at the offices of television network Televisa in the border city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, early in the morning of Jan. 8. Mexican army personnel deactivated the grenades, which had not exploded.

39: Acapulco, Guerrero (11/10/2010)

An armed group stormed the offices of El Sur newspaper in Acapulco (SW Mexico) Wednesday night,( Nov. 10). No one was injured, but editor Juan Angulo says the attack could have been political intimidation.

40: Mazatlán, Sinaloa (10/03/2010)

Attackers armed with assault rifles opened fire on the headquarters of the newspaper El Debate. No one was injured in the attack that left only material damages.

41: Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (09/16/2010)

Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco, photographer for El Diario de Juárez, is shot to death by gunmen in a mall parking lot. Another photographer with him was injured.

42: Mazatlán, Sinaloa (09/01/2010)

No one was injured in a shooting attack against the newspaper Noroeste that occurred just hours after the newspaper received threatening phone calls. One day later a bomb threat forced the evacuation of the newspaper's building.

43: Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas (08/27/2010)

44: Monterrey, Nuevo León (08/15/2010)

A grenade attack at Televisa headquarters slightly injures two employees and damages a vehicle. Criminals linked to Los Zetas are believed to be behind the attack.

45: Matamoros, Tamaulipas (08/14/2010)

46: Jerez, Zacatecas (07/28/2010)

47: Gómez Palacio, Durango (07/26/2010)

48: Chihuahua, Chihuahua (07/10/2010)

49: Montemorelos-Rayones Highway, Nuevo León (07/09/2010)

50: Highway between Tepalcatepec and Aguililla, Michoacán (07/06/2010)

51: Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero (06/28/2010)

52: Torreón, Coahuila (06/22/2010)

53: Tepic, Nayarit (05/17/2010)

54: Xalapa, Veracruz (04/27/2010)

55: Morelia, Michoacán (04/10/2010)

56: Paracho, Michoacán (04/06/2010)

57: Chilpancingo, Guerrero (03/12/2010)

58: Reynosa, Tamaulipas (03/09/2010)

59: Ayutla, Guerrero (01/30/2010)

60: Los Mochis, Sinaloa (01/27/2010)

61: Los Mochis, Sinaloa (01/15/2010)

62: Saltillo, Coahuila (01/07/2010)

Valentín Valdés Espinosa, founder of Zócalo Saltillo was found dead after being kidnapped.