reporters decided stop asking questions to the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as a act of protest for the murdered journalists in Mexico.
‘Morning’ reporters show solidarity with yesterday’s protests.
“We do not want to ask you questions, we want to replicate the protest, refrain from asking you questions, President,” they told President López Obrador.
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After journalists demonstrated in the Senate of the Republic and in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, the reporter Rodolfo Montes He asked the Mexican president for the following “this day we do not want to ask him questions, we want to replicate the protest”, to which López Obrador accepted, although he made it clear that his government does not order “annihilate” anyone.
I agree with what you say that you have to show up. It is our responsibility to take care of the lives of all journalists and all Mexicans,” he said.
“The only thing that should be considered is that we did not order the annihilation of anyone, anyone, the State is no longer the violator par excellence of human rights, and if there is evidence it is punished, but there is not even the intention, but it is not even in our thoughts”, he pointed out.
President Lopez Obrador He pointed out that his government will protect journalists, both “honest and mercenaries,” and asked not to use said movement to attack the Fourth Transformation that he heads.
We are not repressors, so that they do not confuse us. All our support and solidarity and we will continue to protect journalists. We must protect everyone, rich, poor, honest journalists and mercenaries, because life is the most valuable thing and we all have the right to life and it is the main thing of human rights, but not to use these unfortunate facts to attack the Government that I represent “, he claimed.
“Yesterday I saw a tweet where he said ‘they are killing us’, this famous journalist who is on Univisión said it and another answered, I don’t know if he was a journalist or a citizen, what had he done.- It is the use of the pain of others, that is a manipulation,” he stressed.
at the end of the conference morningreporters organized a minute of silence in memory of the journalists murdered in Mexico.
Dozens of Mexican journalists who cover information from the Chamber of Deputies and Senators held a protest on Tuesday against the six murders of colleagues that have occurred at the beginning of the year in the country and the increase in violence with the press.
In the first instance, reporters, photographers and cameramen who cover information from the Mexican Senate left a press conference offered by party legislators National Regeneration Movement (Brunette), of the president Lopez Obrador.
Later, media professionals who regularly attend the Chamber of Deputies interrupted the session to demand justice for the recent murders of their colleagues.
“¡we want each other alivewe want each other alive!”, was the slogan of the journalists in addition to shouts of “!Justice!” After that demonstration, a minute of silence was observed for the journalists killed in the first weeks of this year.
From 2000 to date, the organization Article 19 has documented 150 murders of journalists in Mexico, possibly related to their work. Of the total, 138 are men and 12 are women.
Of these, 47 were registered during the previous term of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) and 30 in the current one of López Obrador (2018-2024).
With information from López-Dóriga Digital and EFE