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Weekly Report - 06 August 2015 (WR-15-31)

MEXICO: Journalists exposed to threats of the powerful

The execution-style murder of four women and one man in a residential apartment in a middle class area of Mexico City on 31 July is having major repercussions. First, because this level of violence – sadly not uncommon in other parts of the country – is unusual in the capital. Second because the man, Rubén Espinosa, was a freelance photographer who had angered powerful interests in his home state of Veracruz, and at least one of the women, Nadia Vera, was a student activist who had done the same. A key issue behind this story is Mexico’s high levels of violence and intimidation directed against journalists. Freedom of expression seems to be most curtailed at state level, as the case of Veracruz shows.

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