Journalists demand safety guarantees

National
Accomplish silent march toward the Governance Secretariat
Journalists demand safety guarantees
By: Carlos Damián August 18, 2010
Journalists: The government, obligated to investigate assassinations of 60 journalist
México.- They accomplish silent march toward the Governance Secretariat, hundred of Mexican journalists demanding to the federal government that comply with their must of guaranteeing safety conditions for the work of the communicators, that are investigated the assassinations of more than 60 journalist and the disappearance of 12, all they cases that stay unpunished. "We are convinced of the urgent need of demanding publicly cease it of all the acts of violence, intimidation and pursuit against the reporters of the country", was warned in the communiqué issued by the organizers, of various media.

Various media journalists protested in simultaneous form in 11 states of the country as part of the national movement to demand to the State and from the different organs of government that comply with their to owe constitutional of guaranteeing safety - human rights- during their professional exercise, to investigate the informer homicides and that they will be presented with life disappeared them in different entities from the nation. With the slogan of "No more!", the journalists were gathered noon of this Saturday in the Angel de la Independence, in which in a unprecedented fact was named to each one of who have been murdered and from those disappeared and kidnapped.

We don’t want be the news
“Are worst the safety conditions for the journalists and the investigations stay filed, in the forgetfulness". The summons for this protest demonstration stemmed from spontaneous way in the social nets and in a few days, encouraged with the motto, "because we want them live", was achieved to spread the information about the need of "to make something" to demand safety in the right to inform. With one limit of avoiding protagonists or "directing" yet, was it requested that the march toward the Governance Secretariat would be in silence. Between themselves was communicated their suffering as working from the communication.

"This is a physical expression of how they should be perfectly united, journalists and society retro-feed. Here there is a lot of people, of many groups, of many media, putting aside ideologies or political postures", indicated one of the attendees to the march, with several decades of path in the trade. Other of the attendees to the meeting commented that "the meeting perhaps serves of little, however it is important to leave to the street to denounce that the situation in the one which work the reporters is serious, in a country in the one which the impunity level is such that is done not know the state of the previous inquiries of the assassinations and journalist kidnappings, "if is that there are previous inquiries about the assassinations", expressed.

We have anger to the silence
In the contingent were alone exhibited some blankets with legends, the murdered journalists images and cardboards with various freedom slogans for the information and high to the journalist assassinations. Almost in silence elapsed the journalists demonstration, photographers, cameraman, editors and publishers that walked by Paseo de la Reforma, though they were not letting of be poured commentaries of the usefulness of the protest. Perhaps some journalists were not by not to make to them the game to the media that they do not protect to their own people; other more, because they believe that though there is good will in the union to try to stopping the assaults on the journalists do not go to cease and the demonstration will be used by the government to justify their against the drug traffic, the war of the fear", were commenting the most.

For your right to know and my right to live Upon arriving to the goal and already in the Governance building, extended the blanket prepared for such effect, "Because we want them living… we seek them: 12 journalists continue disappeared and 64 assassinations have not been solved". Even though they were invited to enter to the secretariat with an commission that designated the journalists, they declined the proposal, and answered that were demanding to the authorities that comply with their work of investigating the aggressions and assassinations. To demand to the Legislative that they convert into federal law the protection to the journalists, so that they do not remain unpunished and that don’t close the files without solving the cases.

In Hermosillo, Sonora, they are asked by the whereabouts of the journalists: Alfredo Jimenez Mota and Miriam Denisse Ramos; in Morelia, Michoacán by the assassinations of: Hugo Olivera, Martín Javier Miranda, Miguel Angel Villagómez, Gerardo Israel Garcia Pimentel, and Jaime Arturo Olvera and died from 2006 until today by the criminal organizations; in Culiacan, Sonora by: Oscar Riveras, Gregorio Rodriguez Hernandez and José Luis Romero. In the same way were the journalists of: Nuevo León, Baja California, Guanajuato, Chiapas, and Oaxaca. (La Jornada, política, p. 10, August 8, 2010).