The organization Article 19 recorded 20 attacks against the press in the state of Oaxaca during 2024, placing it among the 10 states in the country with the highest number of such events.
In its report “Information Barriers: Challenges to Freedom of Expression and Access to Information,” it details that 19 were direct attacks and one was digital, which is “another open front.”
In its report, Article 19 documented a total of 639 attacks in 2024, of which 140 were committed digitally. “This means that 21.91%, or at least one in every five attacks, was online.”
The main attacks against the press last year were intimidation and harassment, illegitimate use of public power, blocking or alteration of content, threats, physical attacks, deprivation of liberty, attacks on material property, removal of content, and illicit access.
In 2024, four journalists were murdered: Roberto Carlos Figueroa, in the state of Morelos; Víctor Alfonso Culebro Morales, in Chiapas; Alejandro Alfredo Martínez Noguez, in Guanajuato; and Mauricio Cruz Solís, in Michoacán.
The organization noted that the top five states in Mexico in terms of the number of attacks against the press are Mexico City, Guerrero, Veracruz, Puebla, and Guanajuato. These five states, it stated, represent 51 percent of the documented cases of violence against journalists and media outlets nationwide.
The report states: “In Mexico, the press reports amidst bullets, threats, lawsuits, and hate campaigns. The challenge now is to consolidate a comprehensive policy to protect journalists that goes beyond responding to attacks and focuses on prevention, but also on justice, reparations, and breaking pacts of impunity.”
Source: educaoaxaca.org
