The six-year term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), which ends this Monday, September 30, closes with 81 journalists murdered.
According to the journalistic monitoring of La Otra Opinión and the magazine Etcétera from December 1, 2018 to September 30, 2024, 81 murders of journalists and communicators have been recorded in Mexico.
In the first month of López Obrador’s government, December 2018, two journalists were murdered; while in 2019, 19 homicides were recorded; in 2020, 16 were killed; in 2021, 12 communicators were murdered; likewise, in 2022, 18 journalists were executed; In 2023, there were 9 murders and until September 30, 2024, 5 homicides were recorded.
AMLO’s administration has the first place as the government with the most murders of journalists in the history of the country.
And the above is confirmed by the annual report of Reporters Without Borders, which placed Mexico in first place in the ranking of mortality of information professionals, for the fourth consecutive year.
This is the list of the 81 journalists murdered during the AMLO administration:
2018
1- Jesús Alejandro Márquez Jiménez December 1. Nayarit
- Diego García Corona. December 4. State of Mexico
2019
- Rafael Murúa Manríquez. January 20. Baja California Sur
- Gustavo Cruz Mendoza. January 20. Oaxaca.
- Jesús Eugenio Ramos Rodríguez. February 9. Tabasco
- Reynaldo López. February 16. Sonora
- Samir Soberanes. February 20. Morelos
- Santiago Barroso Alfaro. March 15. Sonora
- Omar Ivan Camacho Mascareño. March 24. Sinaloa
- Telesforo Santiago Enriquez. May 2. Oaxaca
- Jose Lucio Bartolo Faustino. May 5. Guerrero
- Modesto Verales Sebastian. May 5. Guerrero
- Francisco Romero Diaz. May 16. Quintana Roo
- Norma Sarabia Garduza. June 12. Tabasco
- Juan Escamilla Bautista. June 23. Tamaulipas
- Rogelio Barragan. July 30. Morelos
- Edgar Alberto Nava Lopez. August 2. Guerrero
- Jorge Celestino Ruiz Vazquez August 2. Veracruz
- Arturo Jorge Ramirez. August 16. Oaxaca
- Nevith Condes Jaramillo. August 24. State of Mexico
- Erick Castillo Sanchez. September 14. Guerrero
2020
- Alvaro Ruiz. January 5. Chiapas
- Fidel Avila Gomez. January 9. Michoacan.
- Teresa Aracely Alcocer (Barbara Greco) . February 18. Chihuahua.
- Maria Elena Ferral. March 30. Veracruz
- Victor Fernando Alvarez. April 11. Guerrero.
- Jorge Miguel Armenta Ramos. May 16. Sonora
- Jose Castillo Osuna. June 11. Sonora
- Alma Angelica Aguilar. June 11. Sonora.
- Pablo Morrugares Parraguirre. August 2. Warrior 31. Luis Eduardo Ochoa. August 5. Michoacán 32. Juan Nelcio Espinoza Menera. August 21. Coahuila.
- Julio Valdivia. September 9. Veracruz 34. Arturo Alba Medina. October 29. Chihuahua 35. Jesús Alonso Piñuelas. November 2. Sonora 36. Israel Vázquez Rangel. November 9. Guanajuato 37. Jaime Daniel Castaño Zacarías. December 9. Zacatecas 2021 38. Benjamín Morales Hernández. May 3. Sonora.
- Gustavo Sánchez Cabrera. June 17. Oaxaca.
- Enrique García García. June 17. State of Mexico.
- Saul Tijerina Renteria. June 22. Coahuila.
- Abraham Mendoza. July 19. Michoacan.
- Ricardo Lopez Dominguez. July 22. Sonora.
- Jacinto Romero Flores. August 19. Veracruz.
- Manuel Gonzalez Reyes. September 28. Morelos.
- Daniel Hernandez Moncada. October 7. State of Mexico.
- Fredy Lopez Arevalo. Chiapas. October 29. Chiapas.
- Alfredo Cardoso Echeverria. October 31. Guerrero.
- Pastor Ivan Carrillo Ochoa. December 27. Sonora
2022
- Jose Luis Gamboa. January 16. Veracruz
- Margarito Martinez. January 17. Baja California.
- Lourdes Maldonado. January 23. Baja California.
- Roberto Toledo. January 31. Zitacuaro, Michoacan.
- Herber Lopez Vasquez. February 10. Salina Cruz. Oaxaca.
- Jorge “Choche” Camero Zazueta. February 24. Empalme, Sonora.
- Juan Carlos Muniz. March 4. Fresnillo, Zacatecas.
- Armando Linares Lopez. March 15. Zitacuaro, Michoacan.
- Luis Enrique Ramirez Ramos. May 5. Culiacan. Sinaloa.
- Johana Garcia Olvera. May 9. Cosoleacaque, Veracruz.
- Yesenia Mollinedo Falconi. May 9. Cosoleacaque, Veracruz.
- Antonio de la Cruz. June 29. Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.
- Ernesto Mendez. August 2. San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato.
- Alan Gonzalez. August 11. Chihuahua.
- Juan Arjon. August 16. Sonora.
- Fredid Roman. August 22. Chilpancingo, Guerrero.
- Candida Cristal Vazquez. August 27. Sinaloa.
- Pedro Pablo Kamul. November 21. Veracruz.
- 2023
68.- Abisaí Pérez Romero. February 13. Hidalgo. - 69.- José Ramiro Araujo Ochoa. February 23. Baja California.
- 70.- Héctor Reyes Reyes. March 21. CDMX
- 71.- Gerardo Torres Renteria. May 11. Guerrero.
- 72.- Luis Martín Sánchez. Nayarit.
- 73.- Nelson Matus. July 23. Guerrero.
- 74.- Jesus Gutierrez Vergara. September 25. Sonora.
- 75.- Héctor Noguera Trujillo. November 8. Veracruz.
- 76.- Ismael Villagómez Tapia. November 17. Chihuahua
- 2024
77.- Roberto Carlos Figueroa. April 26. Morelos - 78.- Víctor Manuel Jiménez. June 11, 2024. Guanajuato –the journalist disappeared in 2020 and after almost four years his body was found in the municipality of Villagrán–.
- 79.- Víctor Alfonso Culebro Morales. June 28. Chiapas
- 80.- Alejandro Martínez Noguez. August 4. Guanajuato.
- 81.- Enrique Hernández Avilez. September 4. Guerrero –the journalist disappeared on June 20 and his body was found in a clandestine grave in Taxco–.
It is worth remembering that on June 10, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, Secretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC); stated that they only have 20 journalists registered as murdered during the López Obrador administration.
With information from La Otra Opinión
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