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Mexican TV journalists kidnapping - three arrested Guardian | 9th August 2010: Police in Mexico have arrested three suspected drug cartel members allegedly involved in the kidnapping of journalists over a week ago.The suspects, one of whom was injured in a shoot-out with the federal police, allegedly worked for the Sinaloa drug cartel in the city of Gomez Palacio in the northern Mexican state of Durango.Equipment belonging to one of the television journalists was found on the premises where the gang were arrested.Source: IPITelevision industryMexicoRoy Greensladeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Mexican Journalists March to Protest Killings The New York Times | 8th August 2010: More than 1,000 Mexican journalists marched through the city center Saturday to protest the killing and disappearance of their colleagues as escalating drug violence increasingly targets reporters.

Mexican journalists demand protection, justice as drug gangs step up attacks to silence media Topix.net | 8th August 2010: More than 1,000 Mexican journalists marched through the city center Saturday to protest the killing and disappearance of their colleagues as escalating drug violence increasingly targets reporters.

Journalists' union attacks PSNI BBC World | 20th August 2010: A journalists' union says it is alarmed that a telephone belonging to a Londonderry based journalist has been seized by police.

Journalists face challenge: Is it really ?end of combat? in Iraq? Yahoo - Most Viewed | 8th September 2010: The Upshot - President Obama announced last week that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended and that it's time to turn the page.Â But a quick scan of the front page of Monday's New York Times indicates otherwise: Attack Shows Lasting Threat to U.S. in Iraq. Although the last U.S. combat troops pulled out of Iraq [...]

Sunni and Shiite Iraqi journalists talk about war Yahoo - World | 4th September 2010: AP - As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, two Associated Press Television News cameramen, one Sunni and the other Shiite, talk about what it has been like to live through and record the war. The accounts are translated and edited.

Suriname president still faces charges of murdering journalists Guardian | 19th August 2010: In what is widely regarded among press freedom watchdogs as a breathtaking case of impunity, Desi Bouterse was sworn in as president of the south American republic of Suriname a week ago.During his phase as the country's dictator from 1980-87, he was accused of murdering five journalists. They were executed in 1982 along with 10 other pro-democracy activists. No independent media was permitted to operate under Bouterse in that period. He was sentenced in absentia to 11 years in prison in the Netherlands in 1999 on a charge of drug trafficking. And he is still facing a 20-year prison term in Suriname if convicted of the 1982 massacre.He has said that he recognises his political responsibility for the murders, but he has never admitted to being directly involved. Sources: RSF/IFEXPress freedomSurinameJournalist safetyGreenslade on Latin AmericaRoy Greensladeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

South African journalists condemn efforts to silence them Guardian | 15th August 2010: A planned law to 'regulate' journalists' work represents the most serious threat to the media since apartheidRoyal sex scandals rarely come riper. A government minister is caught in bed with the king's wife ? in fact, one of the king's 14 wives. Ndumiso Mamba, justice minister in Swaziland, is forced to resign and could yet face much worse from King Mswati III.But just about the last people to read this story were those in Swaziland itself. The censorious atmosphere in the tiny, impoverished kingdom contrasts with South Africa, where newspapers had a field day.Such freedom is the envy of much of the continent. South African papers have repeatedly exposed bribery and corruption in high places, including a tainted multibillion pound arms deal investigated by the Mail & Guardian. President Jacob Zuma's business and romantic relationships do not escape scrutiny either.But now South African journalists are facing their most serious threat since the persecution of the apartheid regime. The governing African National Congress is proposing new laws that would make it illegal to leak or publish information deemed classified by the government, with the offence punishable by up to 25 years in jail. The ANC wants to create a media tribunal to regulate journalists' work.The ANC contends that self-regulation has failed and that it can point to numerous news stories that were intentionally damaging to subjects' reputations and dignity.The media that say this is a restriction on us, we are the watchdog of the people ? they were never elected, Zuma said last week. They need to be governed themselves because at times they go overboard on the rights.The ANC claims that most citizens are in favour of a tribunal. But the debate took a sinister turn when Mzilikazi wa Afrika, a journalist at the Sunday Times, was arrested at the paper's office in Johannesburg.Opponents believe the ANC is reacting because of a steady flow of negative stories about politicians abusing their position. Thirty-seven South African editors have signed a declaration calling on the ANC to abandon the measures. The Vienna-based International Press Institute has sent an open letter to Zuma about the plans.Many fear that the reforms would take South Africa one step back from mature liberal democracy ? and one step closer to the autocratic controls of Swaziland and Zimbabwe.South AfricaJacob ZumaJournalist safetyCensorshipDavid Smithguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Austrian conference hosts 'politicians versus journalists' debate Guardian | 31st August 2010: ALPBACH, Austria: I am interrupting my blog holiday to report on a session of a conference here organised by the International Press Institute at the European Forum Alpbach 2010. It didn't matter to us panellists that the question under discussion - Politicians construct and journalists search for reality? - was a statement rather than a question. We knew well enough that we were being asked which really constructs reality for the public they claim to serve? In order to do that, as the moderator, Michael Prüller, deputy editor-in-chief of Vienna's Die Presse, explained at the outset, it was important to unravel the uneasy relationship between politicians and journalists.Verena Nowotny was in no doubt that both were engaged in the construction of reality, but she clearly wished that journalists made a better fist of it. Her views are coloured by her dealings with the media, now as spokesperson for the Austrian government at the United Nations, and formerly as the communications chief for the ex-Austrian chancellor, Wolfgang Schüssel.Journalists only tell one story, she said, and it becomes the defining story. To illustrate her point, she said that the outside world thought most Austrians were Nazis who locked up their children in cellars.This creation of a myth was due, in part, to the over-simplification of reporting. Journalists, she said, have to give citizens a chance to experience a reality that does not only consist of villains and heroes, of losers and winners, of devastating catastrophes and landslide victories.Lance Price, who did much the same job as Nowotny as director of communications for Britain's former prime minister, Tony Blair, dealt with the reality of the running battle between politicians and journalists.One of his key themes was about the way in which journalists - or, more properly, their owners and editors - seek to exercise political power.But, as he rightly noted, attempts to displace politicians or to influence the political process usually fail. Despite this fact, politicians misguidedly believe the media is powerful and therefore spend too much time and effort cosying up to the media. This weakens them as politicians, he said.Then came his major point, about the greatest threat to democracy occurring when journalists collude with politicians, when they find themselves on the same side rather than on opposite sides... when journalists decide to be cheerleaders.He listed several examples - appeasement before the outbreak of the second world war, the Suez misadventure, the Falklands war and, most notable of all, the invasion of Iraq. Whatever their faults, journalists in Britain and Austria continue to act as watchdogs on politicians. Andrei Soldatov, co-founder of the Moscow-based website agentura.ru, painted a gloomier picture of journalism in Russia, suggesting that politicians hold sway.He lamented the fact that newspapers had reduced their commitment to investigative journalism. New media may be one answer, he said, because it has challenged the status quo. But websites pose no threat to the authorities because in most cases they are just aggregators, have no staff, and rely entirely on the few remaining independent newspapers, which are hesitant to use new media sources.Afterwards, Andrei added to his depressing news by telling me that the level of audience interest in investigative journalism is very low indeed among the burgeoning Russian middle class.The Hungarian online journalist, Péter Szegö of hvg.hu, sought to illustrate how the media do not construct a single reality but, through different interpretations of the same event in different news outlets, different reports appear.As for my own contribution, I argued that both politicians and journalists, while paying lip service to acting in the public interest, have forsaken their original commitment to public service.I see I was quoted in the conference paper, Alpbach News, as saying that the two élites of political and media professionals were engaged in a public dance, a masquerade, in which the majority of the people were merely passive viewers. So I guess I said it.As if on cue, just as my fellow panellists were making their concluding remarks, the hall was invaded by a horde of cameramen and photographers following the former Croatian prime minister, Ivo Sanader, who is at the centre of a corruption scandal.He had entered because he was due to speak at the panel after ours. He smiled away. They snapped away. Austrian politician Franz Fischler told the journalists to behave. They ignored him.So the dance went on in front of us. Politicians and journalists were doing what they always do, and just as we had said, getting on each other's nerves.Media events and conferencesAustriaTony BlairRussiaHungaryCroatiaRoy Greensladeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

South Africa journalists fight proposed media laws Yahoo - World | 8th August 2010: AP - South African journalists are launching a campaign to fight what they say is an attempt to curtail media freedoms in a nation known for one of Africa's freest and most open constitutions.

Iranian journalists' website puts Ahmadinejad spin on Barack Obama Guardian | 2nd September 2010: Website barackobama.ir promises 'an Iranian viewpoint on Barack Obama's opinions'A group of Iranian journalists sympathetic to the world view of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched barackobama.ir, a website set up to address an Iranian viewpoint on Barack Obama's opinions.The news of its creation first appeared this week in a series of government-sponsored websites and news agencies, which endorsed it as an independent source of information about the life of Obama, his administration and issues such as 9/11, Israel and Iran's nuclear programme.The website has attracted nearly 100,000 visitors in its first week. It introduces itself as a group that believes that Barack Obama isn't only a name but a political phenomenon.It depicts the American president as someone who insists on the Arabic-Islamic part of his name: Hussein and adds: He is educated, lawyer, friendly, who observes the niceties of etiquette showing real oriental feeling in his innocent eyes that are the heritage of the occidental government's cruelty to the Negroes. But it adds that, by electing him as president, the United States confessed to the increasing power of Islam.Among articles published on his life is one headlined: Is he the first Jewish president?Ahmadinejad sees the internet as a platform used for psychological war against Iran and has repeatedly asked its supporters to attack the enemies in the virtual society.Since the disputed presidential election last summer, when Iranian protesters exploited Twitter and Facebook to spread their voice, the number of government-supported websites and blogs has increased significantly, while access to almost all opposition websites has been blocked.An Iranian journalist who asked not to be identified said: In Iran, all blogs and websites need to register with the government, especially those holding .ir domains, and the fact that barackobama.ir is set up without problem and is welcomed by governmental news agencies shows that it is backed by officials within the Iranian regime.IranBarack ObamaUnited StatesInternetSaeed Kamali Dehghanguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Kidnappings, bombs, death threats: 2 Iraqi journalists, Sunni and Shiite, talk about the war Topix.net | 4th September 2010: As the U.S. draws down in Iraq , two Associated Press Television News cameramen, one Sunni and the other Shiite, talk about what it has been like to live through and record the war.

Grenade explosion injures 16 at Mexican bar Yahoo - Most Viewed | 27th August 2010: AP - Mexican authorities say at least 16 people have been injured by a grenade that exploded at a bar in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta.

What's behind Mexican migrant killings still unclear Yahoo - World | 28th August 2010: McClatchy Newspapers - MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon on Friday accused the gunmen who killed 72 illegal migrants in northern Mexico this week of incalculable savagery as his government attempted to depict the major drug gang implicated in the slaughter as weakened and desperate.

Mexican massacre investigator missing Guardian | 28th August 2010: Lead detective and another official investigating killing of 72 migrants are reported missingA lead investigator and another official looking into the massacre of 72 migrants whose bodies were found this week in northern Mexico are missing, according to President Felipe Calderón.Calderón initially said the body of one of the men had been found. But he was handed a note few minutes later and corrected himself, saying the investigator was missing.Mexican media reported yesterday morning that two bodies had been found and that one of them belonged to the investigator.The attorney general's office in Tamaulipas state, where the bodies of the 72 migrants were found on Tuesday, identified the investigator as Roberto Jaime Suarez Vazquez. The news release did not name the other man other than to say he was a municipal police officer in San Fernando. Both men disappeared on Wednesday afternoon, the attorney general's office said.Authorities have identified 31 of the 72 migrants whose bodies were found on a ranch near San Fernando. Of those identified, 14 came from Honduras, 12 were from El Salvador, four were from Guatemala and one from Brazil.A young man from Ecuador who led navy personnel to the scene of the massacre said he escaped after pretending that he was dead. Officials are investigating whether the Zetas drug cartel carried out the killings, as the man reportedly told police.Yesterday, two cars exploded outside the studios of the national TV network Televisa in the state capital, Ciudad Victoria. There were no casualties, but the blasts added to a growing sense of fear in the aftermath of the worst single act of violence in the country's drug wars.Meanwhile, investigators under armed guard continued the process of identifying the victims, with 20 named by midday on Friday, local officials said.The migrants, 14 of them women, came from at least four countries, including Honduras, El Salvador, Brazil and Ecuador. They were found bound and blindfolded by the wall of a barn after navy personnel stormed the ranch on Tuesday.The massacre was discovered after Luis Freddy Lala Pomavilla, 18, who had been left for dead with a neck wound, fled and found his way to a navy road checkpoint.Lala said the migrants had been kidnapped by armed men who identified themselves as belonging to the Zetas, one of the cartels fighting for supremacy in the state. He said the killing began after they refused offers to work for the cartel.Interviewed at their home in a remote Andean village by Ecuadorian TV, Lala's family said he had left for the US two months ago after paying $15,000 (£9,000) to a people smuggler.I told him not to go, but he went, said one of his seven brothers, Luis Alfredo. His 17-year-old pregnant wife Maria said she had received a call a few weeks ago from Guatemala, indicating all that was well.The Ecuadorian government has complained that the survivor's security has been put at risk by the publication of his identity around the world. Mexican newspapers said he had been transferred from hospital to a naval base. His family in Ecuador was put under police protection.The massacre has focused attention on the vulnerability of US-bound economic migrants as they cross Mexico, a situation long denounced by activists, but largely ignored by the Mexican government until now. Since at least 2008 organised crime groups, particularly the Zetas, have preyed on migrants, primarily from Central America. Copycat groups might also be using the name of the infamously violent cartel to terrify their victims. A report published in 2009 by Mexico's national commission of human rights estimated that more than 1,600 migrants were kidnapped every month.Typically, the aim has been to force relatives in the US to pay a ransom. Activists have also documented many cases of complicity within the Mexican authorities.In a chilling testimony published in El Universal newspaper this week, a Salvadoran identified as Marisolina described being forced to cook and clean for the kidnappers as other migrants disappeared if they could not raise the ransom.They kept the ones who couldn't pay tied up in a room waiting to be killed, she said. I would give them food and next day they wouldn't be there and new ones would be in their place.MexicoDrugs tradeJo Tuckmanguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Mexican Police Help Murder Their Own Mayor Yahoo - World | 21st August 2010: Time.com - Santiago, Mexico is a picturesque town of waterfalls, colonial churches and holiday homes for the rich. But no corner of the country is shielded from the relentless rain of drug-related bloodshed.

Six arrested in Mexican mayor's killing CNN | 21st August 2010: Five police officers and a transit worker have been arrested in the abduction and killing of a mayor this week in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon, the state's governor, Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, announced Friday.

Mexican clash 'kills 25 gunmen' BBC World | 3rd September 2010: The Mexican army says it has killed 25 suspected drug cartel gunmen in a clash near the US border after its soldiers came under fire.

Mexican Military Says 25 Killed in Shootout FOX News | 3rd September 2010

'La Barbie' Knows Top Mexican Cartel Leaders FOX News | 1st September 2010: In a video released by Mexican police, captured drug lord 'la Barbie' says he personally knows the country's top cartel leaders, leading authorities to believe he can provide valuable intelMexican Tourism Booming Despite Violence, Official Says Drone Use on Border Weapon or Waste?

Mexican Tourism Still Open for Business? FOX News | 31st August 2010: Mexico may be racked by violence, but officials still say tourists are flocking to the country's popular vacation destinationsDeadly Blast at Cancun Hot Spot Mexico: Top Drug Lord 'La Barbie' Nabbed

For Mexican cartels, marijuana is still gold Yahoo - World | 2nd September 2010: McClatchy Newspapers - CORRE COYOTE, Mexico — Times are good for the dope growers of the western Sierra Madre mountains. The army eradication squads that once hacked at the illicit marijuana fields have been diverted by the drug war that's raging elsewhere in Mexico.

Four Mexican politicians die in plane crash Reuters | 3rd September 2010: OAXACA, Mexico (Reuters) - Two members of Mexico's Congress and two local politicians were killed on Friday when their private plane crashed near a popular Mexican Pacific beach resort, officials said.

Two Mexican congressmen die in plane crash Reuters | 4th September 2010: OAXACA, Mexico (Reuters) - Two members of Mexico's Congress were among six people killed on Friday when their private plane crashed near a popular Mexican Pacific beach resort, officials said.

Mexican women forced into prostitution in U.S. MSNBC | 8th August 2010: In this impoverished town in central Mexico, a sinister trade has taken root: Entire extended families exploit desperation and lure hundreds of unsuspecting young Mexican women to the United States to force them into prostitution.

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