Guadalajara journalists and photographers staged a protest in the Parque Rojo Monday to demand justice for the murder of a colleague in the neighboring state of Nayarit.
Luis Martín Sánchez Íñiguez, the Nayarit correspondent for La Jornada, was abducted from his house on the outskirts of Tepic by armed men on the evening of July 5. His lifeless body was found in another part of the municipality on July 8 showing visible signs of violence. A handwritten message on cardboard had been attached to his body, reportedly saying that he could publish what he wanted but not to “mess” with a local criminal gang. Two other Nayarit journalists who were also reported missing on the same date were later found safe and sound.
Around 50 members of the Guadalajara media community gathered in the park on Monday to highlight the continued threat to journalists in Mexico, and demand solutions to the impunity that the perpetrators of these crimes enjoy.
Sánchez Íñiguez, 59, was the sixth journalist to be killed in Mexico in 2023. In total, 40 have been murdered during the term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office in December 2018 - 13 of them in 2022. According to Reporters Without Borders, as of May this year 157 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000.