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Mexico & Nafta - April 2017 (ISSN 1741-444X)
Stop shooting or be shot: the real risks of reporting in Mexico
After 30 years in print, a Mexican regional newspaper, Norte de Ciudad Juárez, bade farewell to its readers with an abrupt “¡Adiós!” on 3 April. Norte’s chief editor, Oscar Cantú, said he had decided to end the publication due to security concerns after one of its crime reporters, Miroslava Breach, was murdered, although he also mentioned economic reasons. “I have decided to close this daily because the safety for us to continue in journalism does not exist…there is a price to pay…[and] I am not ready for one more of my collaborators to pay it,” Cantú said.
