Security & Strategic Review - March 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)

MEXICO | Media & journalists under attack. In the last week of February the newspaper El Siglo de Torreón (Coahuila) suffered three drive-by shootings, in the last of which one passerby was killed and another and a police officer guarding the premises were injured. On 3 March, Jaime Guadalupe González, editor of the online news service Ojinaga Noticias (www.ojinaganoticias.com.mx), based in Chihuahua, was shot dead on his way to work — the first fatality among media workers since President Enriqe Peña Nieto took office on 1 December. Three days later the premises of two other media in Chihuahua state — El Diario and TV Canal 44 of Ciudad Juárez  — became targets of drive-by shootings, and in Coahuila banners hung in several cities threatened the life of Francisco Juaristi, director of the Zócalo newspaper group, which publishes local issues in Saltillo, Monclova, Piedras Negras, and Ciudad Acuña.