MEXICO CITY – Several artists painted a mural in the central neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City to ask for justice for the six journalists murdered so far this year in the country and demand freedom to inform.
The artist Gabriel Macotela was the one who summoned his colleagues to paint the fences of this place where they had previously claimed, through their art, justice for the victims of femicide or for the disappeared.
“The artists, the intellectuals, we are supporting these wonderful people who are the journalists, without whom we would not know the reality, because of them we know the reality of what is happening,” Macotela told Efe .
Along the Billboards painted different motifs, wrote the names of the six journalists murdered in 2022 and gave special prominence to the concept of freedom.
“I am painting the statue of liberty, which has been a fundamental icon of freedom, of the fundamental principles of what democracy is and I think that is what we are losing, a democratic country”, shared Javier Córdoba, another of the artists.
Magali Ávila, visual artist, reported that the intervention of the billboards speaks of fear and the media. “I think there is too much fear of expressing what is really happening and that is why we are also very uninformed,” he considered.
Macotela also considered that the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is being “very intolerant” with journalists.
“They are not being respected, it seems incredible to me, I did not expect such a response from the president, and that is why we are here” , he sentenced.
This, in reference to the criticism that the president repeatedly makes to certain media outlets and communicators during his usual morning press conference.
On Friday, López Obrador exhibited in his daily conference the supposed salary of the journalist Carlos Loret de Mola, before what the communicator published on Twitter “The president is enraged, he is out of his mind.”
The Hastag #TodossomosLoret emerged on Twitter Space from this confrontation, which had more than 57. support.
And the battle is not over, neither against Loret de Mola nor against other journalists and media outlets that the president criticizes and exhibits.
“Despite Due to the violence against the press in the country, which has six journalists murdered so far this year, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador described several communicators as ‘mercenaries’ this Friday and exhibited the salary of driver Carlos Loret de Mola“, denounced the organization Article 05.
From 2000 To the date , Article 19 has documented ted 88 murders of journalists in Mexico, possibly related to his work. Of the total, 137 are men and 12 they are women.
Of these, 47 were registered during the previous mandate of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-1536) Y 29 in the current one of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1235-2012 ).
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