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Mexican
Journalists
Terrorized
9/28/97
Journalists in Mexico apparently have even more to fear from the police
than from the church. At least four reporters who have reported on police
corruption and ties to the drug trade have recently been kidnapped, tortured
and/or beaten and threatened by assailants with haircuts, guns and speech
patterns which identified them as police officers.
Mexico, whose laws protecting freedom of the press are very weak, is
normally one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists,
according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, but the number incidents
directed at reporters recently has been even higher than usual. But unofficial
threats are not the only obstacle facing Mexican journalists. In the wake
of mounting corruption in the country, federal prosecutors have increasingly
demanded that journalists reveal the names of anonymous sources and a number
of government officials have brought defamation suits against reporters,
including one in which Foreign Minister Jose Gurria is suing a reporter
for printing an interview with a former federal prosecutor who accused
the minister of ties to drug traffickers.
The Houston Chronicle has an excellent story on the situation at http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle-old/page1/97/09/24/mexico.html.
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Issue #13, 9/28/97
Campaign '97 Update | 9 Year-Old Busted on Candy Rap | Another French Official Speaks Out for Legalization of Cannabis | Mexican Priest Praises Drug Traffickers' Benevolence... Journalists Attacked by Archbishop's Aides for Asking Questions about the Incident | Baltimore Health Commissioner Testifies on Needle Exchange | Spy vs. Spy | Cia Turns 50 | Freudian Slip | Mexican Journalists Terrorized | Former Pakistani Prime Minister's Accounts Alleged to Contain "Drug Money" | Swiss Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Heroin Maintenance and Other Liberal Drug Policies | Dutch Heroin Maintenance to go Ahead as "Pilot Project" | Canada's Medical Marijuana Prohibition Challenged by Multiple Sclerosis Patient | Reformers Charge Washington State Government with Using Federal Funds to Politic Against Drug Reform Initiative | Black Market Meth Labs Kill One Child, Force Evacuation of 30 Families | Shalala Continues to be Dogged by Needle Exchange Questions | Editorial: World Gone Mad
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