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Friday, June 12, 2009
Justice for Eliseo
The most recent murder of a journalist in Mexico took place last month in Gómez Palacio, right across the river from Torreón, where the victim worked for La Opinión. Yesterday we learned that five of the alleged abductors of Eliseo Barrón were captured earlier this week.
This is welcome, but more needs to be done. The Senate could start by approving the bill that would make crimes against journalists a federal matter - the same one that was approved during the spring by the Chamber of Deputies. (Just a hunch, but the bill will sit for a while. Freedom of expression doesn't get too many politicians all that excited.)
Yeah it's odd how that kind of disappeared from the radar screen like a week after it was passed. The way a lot of the press coalesced around the Martí movement, it's weird how you don't see anything like that around this. The politicians aren't going to be instinctively for it, but if Excélsior and Imagen and a couple of other media chains got behind it, the pressure would be enough to get the Senate to act.
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This is welcome, but more needs to be done. The Senate could start by approving the bill that would make crimes against journalists a federal matter - the same one that was approved during the spring by the Chamber of Deputies. (Just a hunch, but the bill will sit for a while. Freedom of expression doesn't get too many politicians all that excited.)
Hi David,
Yeah it's odd how that kind of disappeared from the radar screen like a week after it was passed. The way a lot of the press coalesced around the Martí movement, it's weird how you don't see anything like that around this. The politicians aren't going to be instinctively for it, but if Excélsior and Imagen and a couple of other media chains got behind it, the pressure would be enough to get the Senate to act.
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