The Mexican government has confirmed that in the last 16 years, since 2006, at least 260 journalists have been murdered, 63 of them during the term of office of the current Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
This was confirmed this Thursday by Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez, Undersecretary of Human Rights, under the Ministry of the Interior, who has stressed that during the term of Felipe Calderón (2006 – 2012) was when the most murders occurred.
To the 63 deaths since December 2018, when López Obrador was sworn into office, we must add another 101 deaths under Calderón’s mandate, and another 96 between 2012 and 2018, when Enrique Peña Nieto held the presidency of the North American country.
Likewise, Encinas Rodríguez has denounced that even today there are still numerous aggressions against professionals «particularly linked to organized crime, corruption and collusion of municipal authorities and criminal groups».
However, the Mexican representative defended that, unlike other mandates, López Obrador’s administration is fighting head-on against the impunity which, according to him, the perpetrators of these crimes enjoyed, reports ‘El Universal’.
Throughout this year, a total of 13 murders of communication professionals have been confirmed, while 32 people have been arrested, another 24 are in legal proceedings and three have already been sentenced.
