La impunidad en crímenes contra periodistas y sus efectos



Según Artículo 19, el Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos (HCHR), e International Press Institute (IPI), México se presenta entre los países más peligrosos (sino es que el más) para periodistas en América Latina y con mayor impunidad en este tipo de crímenes.


Efectos de la impunidad (declaración de Artículo 19):

  • Discourage denunciation of violent acts [desánimo para la denuncia de actos de violencia]: Such cases have a history of inefficient investigations and a lack of results. This coupled with the reasonable possibility of a ruling in favor of the aggressors, means that journalists who have been victims of aggression often opt not to file a complaint.
  • Encourage perpetrators [ánimo para perpetradores]: In Statistical terms, the cases that have passed through the FEADP have a high probability of remaining unpunished. The impunity that prevails as a result of the Mexican State’s incapacity and/or lack of will to investigate in an effective manner the aggressions, disappearances, and assassinations of journalists further encourage future aggressors.
  • Self-Censorship [auto censura]: An ever increasing number of media outlets, principally at local level, are opting against giving coverage to certain themes as a means of protection. Some journalists choose not to sign their articles, and in the more extreme cases, some have opted for abandoning the profession altogether. These results prevent or inhibit the distribution of information of public interest. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights considers that aggressions against media professionals are crimes have the effect of creating a climate of fear among other journalists and the population in general and generate fear of denouncing abuses and illegal acts of all kinds.
  • Uninformed society [sociedad desinformada]: Withdrawal or lack of publication and information owing to threats, directly affects the realization of the right to freedom of expression and is particularly difficult to monitor and denounce.
  • Weakening of democratic system [debilitación del sistema democrático]: All democratic societies require respect of freedom of expression: without an open dialogue, transpa


Ataques a periodistas en México para lo que va del año 2008 (Reporteros sin Fronteras):

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