Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Attacks Against Mexican Journalists Rise Under Pena Nieto

Threats and attacks against journalists including murder have risen in the first two years of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration compared with his predecessor's time in office, journalism advocacy group Article 19 said on Tuesday.

In a report, the journalist rights group found there were an average of 328 "aggressions" a year against journalists in 2013 and 2014, Pena Nieto's first two years in office.

That was up from the average of 182 a year it recorded during the six-year term of former President Felipe Calderon, who ruled Mexico between 2006 and 2012, and was . . .

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