The danger of being a journalist in Mexico

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Daily, Npr, Talk Show

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In Mexico, more than a dozen journalists have been murdered a year, every year, for two decades. In 2012, Regina Martinez was one of them. One reporter wanted to know why. Katherine Corcoran joins Kimberly Atkins-Stohr.

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0:24.4	Back in July, as Mexico's president,
0:26.9	Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was walking off the stage at a press conference,
0:31.3	a journalist cried out from the crowd.
0:33.4	[♪ Music playing in background, playing in background,
0:36.0	I know.
0:36.8	[♪ Music playing in background, playing in background,
0:40.2	This is it.
0:41.0	[♪ Music playing in background, playing in background,
0:42.2	Radolfo Montess, a veteran independent journalist,
0:45.3	was close to tears.
0:46.7	His life had been threatened, he said,
0:48.7	by a cartel calling itself the heliscote new generation.
0:53.0	The president's press team had provided him with bodyguards,
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