Mexico has hit a record for most journalists killed in a year. Here's why this matters, writes kathycorcoran, author of 'In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press'
in the U.S. for cooperating with authorities in another case, and it remains unclear if the U.S. will agree to extradite him to Mexico to be tried for the journalist’s killing.)The killings escalated with the growing independence of the Mexican press. Since the murders started in 2008, the amount and quality of investigative journalism in Mexico, and the number of reporters working to uncover malfeasance and corruption have taken a huge leap.
The first step in controlling the citizenry for your own gain is attacking the press. This is not a coincidence, it’s a deliberate political strategy. It works. Democracy came to Mexico, but not the institutions necessary to fortify and defend it. So it is easy for elected leaders to manipulate the powers of government for whatever they see fit. In Mexico, when a reporter exposes the link between the state and a criminal enterprise, that’s when they step on the deadly third rail.
But the most startling part for me in trying to explain how a democracy could be deadly for journalists was the emergence of the same narrative in my own country. The script from Mexico—a newer democracy plagued by weak institutions, violence, and moral bankruptcy on the part of many leaders—is now being used in the oldest democracy in the world.
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