Miami (February 7, 2022) - Mexico is in a breakdown and mourning for national journalism. It has been a bloody year; four journalists were murdered in January. For Balbina Flores, a representative in Mexico of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), addressing this complex situation requires considering the context of violence, impunity, and the functioning of protection mechanisms.
Interviewed by journalist Alejandro Jiménez for the podcast "Journalism at Risk" (Periodismo en Riesgo, in Spanish), Flores explains that before proposing a solution to this severe problem of violence, "three critical axes" must be considered.
She refers to the context of violence worsening in some regions, the impunity, and the need to review the federal protection mechanisms for journalists.
When asked about the discourse of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador against journalists and the media, Flores says, "These are expressions that make the atmosphere in such a dangerous country very rarefied.... In a context of this kind he should have some moderation".
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