UNSTOPPABLE VIOLENCE: NOW TWO JOURNALISTS Contralínea MICHOACAN * With five journalists killed in 2010
Mex. City, April 2010 .- The violence against journalists' union 
is increasing every day and has become unstoppable as confirmed by the facts of the last hours and days when offices were raided Contralínea magazine, in addition to murder and disappearance of two journalists in the state of Michoacán.Armando Prida Huerta, president of the Foundation for Freedom of Expression said the violent incidents against freedom of expression "can not obscure the future of our country, much less break the dreams of achieving a truly democratic society." journalist Miguel Badillo Cross unveiled the Foundation for Freedom of Expression that this morning get to the offices of the magazine
Contralínea found that the locks on the office located on the fourth floor had been raped several doors and desk drawers were broken and stolen accounting and administrative information, as well as steal cell phones and computer equipment, including your computer personal.Badillo Cruz, Director General of Contralínea, recalled that There were two previous court orders to alleged harassment by employers related to the state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos, but this time it's an open act delicuencial "and what remains clear is that there is a common law robbery, but this is an attack because we're in a multistory building and the only office was broken into ours. "A statement of the magazine, notes that "currently, Contralínea faces six criminal and civil lawsuits filed by corporate Zeta Gas, Oceanography and Marine Blue, in addition to this publication based in Mexico City and editions in several states the Republic "investigates issues related to national security, government corruption, white collar crime, drug trafficking, money laundering and social issues related to poverty, marginalization and the guerrillas." Also remember the press Contralínea "The September 14, 2009, the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) issued recommendation 57/2009, which determined that the federal executive and judicial authorities violated the human rights of reporters to the publication "where" was credited as forms of censorship the prosecution of freedom of expression and the advertising ban. This recommendation was addressed to Judge Celso Rodríguez González, president of the Supreme Court of the State of Jalisco, and Juan José Suárez Coppel, general director of Petroleos Mexicanos. "
REPORTER MISSING IN MICHOACAN
Known for the publication of social conflicts in the Meseta Purépecha in Michoacán, indigenous farmers have staged against loggers, journalist Ramón Zalpa Angeles correspondent of the newspaper Cambio de Michoacán, disappeared on April 6 último.Del correspondent Cambio de Michoacán newspaper lost all communication and trail from the date when, at 13 pm and headed to facilities of the National Pedagogical University, in the municipality of Paracho.La Foundation for Free Expression (FUNDALEX) regrets the disappearance of journalist Purépecha extraction, who is part of this community and whose work in that medium is well known, both peasants by their neighbors, for those engaged in deforestation zona.Ramón Zalpa Angeles, specializing in politics, public safety, agricultural and environmental issues, had recently informed of an armed attack against an Indian family in the limits of the municipalities of San Juan Nuevo Angahuan and Parangaricutiro.Tras this work, Friday began April 2 receiving phone calls at home, the last of which said the Angels own Zalpa and their families in the past, not a voice heard across the line, four days later he produced his work desaparición.El Ramón Zalpa angels not only realized the struggle of indigenous farmers in the region against loggers, but also the complacency of local and state authorities that allowed the looting of timber wealth of the región.Como in the case of the disappearance of another journalist, Maria Esther Aguilar cockpits, which occurred on November 11 last and also collaborates with
Cambio de Michoacán Nor in this is no evidence that the investigation defendant actually carried the disappearance of Aguilar cabo.De cockpits occurred five months ago, nothing is known to date. The Foundation for Freedom of Expression, chaired by Armando Prida Huerta argues that legal authorities are obliged to put a stop to the method of terror powers, institutional or otherwise, used to limit or outright stop searching for the truth, which is substance of journalism. COLUMN
KILLED
The body of the columnist, lecturer, lawyer and politician, Henry Villicaña Palomares, about 55 years old, was found Sunday in the capital of Michoacan, after being kidnapped on Monday April 5 and although his family had paid the ransom demanded for delivery to vida.Además notary and political Villicaña System Palomares was Director of Radio and Television Michoacan, Academic Secretary of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (POSTECH), Chairman of the Board for Rescue of the Historic Center and Columnist locales.Fundalex newspaper expresses its concern about the climate of harassment and insecurity hanging over the journalist in Michoacán and the rest of the country, since the disappearance of Zalpa Angeles, is the fourth in Michoacan, since 2006, and the tenth nationally since 2000. Also, the murder of Enrique Palomares Villicaña is the fifth in this year.The Foundation for Freedom of Expression in addition to the requirement of the families of the journalists and the newspaper Cambio de Michoacan and various organizations, for the authorities Local clarified as soon as the whereabouts of Zalpa Angeles, find the murderers of Enrique Palomares Villicaña and set security rights to free exercise of journalism.
also considers it unacceptable that the state security institutions have become so weak as to be unable to guarantee the exercise of one of the fundamental rights of society, freedom of expression, which have left vulnerable and virtually in a state of absolute helplessness.
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