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Journalists in Mexico can have a pretty hard time doing their jobs, especially those who cover Mexico’s narco-trafficking and organized crime problems. A couple of non-profits who work on press freedom and protection issues here in Mexico, the Rory Peck Trust and Article 19, got together and ran a course just outside Mexico City this month for 18 journalists living and working here. During the five-day course, the participants, who came from states all over Mexico, from Michoacan all the way to Tijuana in Baja California, were “kidnapped”, dodged tear gas, learned first aid, and received psychological training on how to deal with emergencies.
Campaign targeting Violence Against Journalists in Mexico by MexicoReporter. A television, radio and print advertising campaign called “What you don’t know can hurt you ("Te hace daño no saber" in Spanish) is to launch here in Mexico in an attempt by press freedom non-profits to raise public awareness about violence against journalists and to demand more action from the government of President Felipe Calderon.
