The Mexican correspondent, who has threatened his investigations into politics, crime and corruption, continues his exile in Spain, to condemn what is happening in his country. The Vatican media met him in the amnesty report.
Giada Aquilaino – Vatican City
Alberto Amaru Jordan, Mexican journalist from Atexcatzingo, in Tlaxcala, East Mexico City. It does not reach forty years, however, since it established the “La Prensa de Tlaxcala” website in 2018, he began receiving threats to his investigations into politics, crime and corruption in a land that is also an area for trafficking in people and sexual slavery, in a framework of legal and soldier. We meet with it in the presentation in Rome from the 2024-2025 report on Amnesty International, which indicates that human rights defenders, journalists and demonstrators in Mexico last year “were exposed to criminalization forms, excessive use of strength, violence and death”: at least four correspondents, according to the data mentioned by the organization, were killed “with their connection.”
Protection Program
Alberto has been explained in Spain since last October, and thanks to the local division of Amnesty International, a “one protection program”, explains to the media in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries that practice journalism. It is not a state in the war – he says – he remembers that “since 2000 there have been 170 dead and 32 victims of enforced disappearance.” “For me, she was always an independent newspaper, which reported corruption and drug trafficking. However, with the passage of time, I realized that I was at risk to the people whom I loved more, my family: my children stopped leaving, and they suffer from problems, and my son no longer plays football.”
Fighting for freedom of expression
Today, the journalist continues to write from Spain, with the help of other colleagues in Mexico, because, as he says, “freedom of expression is essential in any part of the world: if people are not good knowledge, this cannot make the right decisions.” When he arrived in Spain, it allowed Amnesty International to “choose between not disclosing his identity for security causes or public life. I decided to speak publicly, and go to schools, because it is my duty to give my voice to journalists who were killed »in Mexico and the world.
(Tagstotranslate) Mexico (T) Political Violence (T) Violence (T) North America
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