Carlos Fernández Tinoco, a local deputy for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), proposed setting up a shelter for journalists and human rights activists within Mexico City in order to safeguard their lives.
On March 22, before the plenary session of the Congress of the country's capital, the PRI also proposed that CDMX be declared a Sanctuary City for those mentioned above. It also indicated that in January of this year, the Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists maintained protective measures for 1,518 people, 1,023 human rights defenders and 495 journalists.
In addition, Fernández Tinoco commented that the Mechanism faces difficulties in funding, the number of employees it has, the lack of coordination with state governments and delays in the implementation of protection measures.
Carlos Fernández recalled the data released by the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders, which showed that the murders of journalists in Mexico account for 58% of the murders against journalists that have occurred in Latin America.
At the end of January, in its report entitled “Low Risk”, the international organization highlighted that in the last decade 134 journalists have been killed in Mexico, Brazil, Honduras and Colombia, and although there are mechanisms in those countries to protect them, they have “serious problems” such as their dependence on “ineffective institutions” , lack of resources or measures that are inadequate or late implemented.
According to the information of the organization, there are “major structural failures” that prevent the correct application of protection mechanisms.
“They all rely on ineffective institutions (police, army, justice); risk analysis methodologies do not always take into account the specificities of journalistic work; protection measures are inadequate or applied too late; human and financial resources are insufficient,” he stressed.
Reporters Without Borders highlighted that there are also other types of attacks against journalists such as threats, kidnappings, or arbitrary arrests, in which they may face abusive judicial proceedings, acts of espionage or the destruction of their work material.
It is worth mentioning that so far this year there have been 8 murders against journalists. José Luis Gamboa, Margarito Esquivel Martínez, Lourdes Maldonado, Roberto Toledo, Heber López Vazquez, Jorge Camero Zazueta, Juan Carlos Muñiz and Armando Linares are the names of the communicators who have had their lives taken away during the few months that have passed this year.
José Luis Gamboa Arenas was stabbed to death in an alleged assault inside the Floresta subdivision, in Veracruz, on January 10.
Margarito Esquivel Martínez was murdered outside his home in the Sánchez Taboada neighborhood of Tijuana, Baja California, a week after the murder of Gamboa Arenas.
Just seven days after Margarito Esquivel's descent, Lourdes Maldonado was shot and attacked as she arrived at her home in Baja California.
On the last day of January, Roberto Toledo was caught outside a law firm where he also worked.
Heber López was killed when he arrived at a house in the El Espinal neighborhood, belonging to Salina Cruz, Oaxaca.
On February 24, Jorge Camero Zazueta, who was the director of the El Informativo portal, was killed after receiving at least three shots from a firearm.
Juan Carlos Muñiz was killed inside the Los Olivos subdivision, in Fresnillo, Zacatecas.
Armando Linares was killed in Zitácuaro, Michoacán on March 15.
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