FRIDAY, MAY 19
PROGRAM # 8070 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
Communicators and activists protest in front of the Mexican Ministry of the Interior, demanding justice for the murder of Javier Valdez Cárdenas, a journalist who was shot to death in Culiacán Sinaloa, and worked for La Jornada and Ríodoce. At the rally held in the country’s capital, reporters criticized the absence of media executives and called for an international investigative mechanism to review the murders of 127 journalists whose cases remain unresolved. For their part, relatives of missing persons lamented the crime of the reporter, who gave voice to the victims of drug trafficking, and whose work was recognized internationally. Martha Elena Ramírez, hosts this broadcast of the program Voz Pública, from Mexico City.
Guests: (recordings) Javier Valdez Cárdenas; José Reveles, journalist; Temoris Grecko, filmmaker; Jesús Villaseca, photographer of La Jornada; Vidulfo Rosales Sierra, lawyer; Araceli Rodríguez, mother of missing policeman Luis Ángel León Rodríguez; Judith Calderón, Secretary General of the Worker’s Union of the newspaper La Jornada, Mexico City.
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