Mexico has long been a ruthless place for journalists and press freedom. According to the international human rights organisation Article 19, 156...
Mexican journalists are still being failed
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Contents – Index at 50: The battles won, lost and currently raging
The spring issue of Index magazine is special. We are celebrating 50 years of history and to such a milestone we've decided to look back at the...
El silencio de los medios
Stephen Woodman informa desde la frontera con Texas, donde Twitter se ha convertido en la única fuente que los capos de la droga no han intervenido
Podcast: Border forces with Peppermint, Ariana Drehsler and Steven Borowiec
The autumn Index on Censorship magazine podcast with Peppermint, Ariana Drehsler and Steven Borowiec exploring how travel restrictions at borders are limiting the flow of free thought and ideas
Project Exile: Threatened in Mexico, facing deportation in the USA
Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez fled Mexico after soldiers sent him a warning. Now the USA wants to send him back.
After cartel kidnapping, Mexican journalist fled to U.S.
The men from the Sinaloa cartel had made a mistake, and now they were looking to use it to their advantage.
Duncan Tucker: Financial pressures are undermining Latin America’s media
Mounting financial pressures are robbing many of Latin America’s media outlets of their objectivity and forcing them to toe pro-government lines.
#IndexAwards2016: Méxicoleaks seeks to bring more transparency to Mexico
Méxicoleaks was launched in 2015 as a platform for people to anonymously share information leaks about anything in the public interest, including corruption, government spending and abuse
#IndexAwards2015: Digital activism nominee Valor por Tamaulipas
Valor por Tamaulipas is a crowd-sourced news platform, based in Mexico and set up in 2012 to fill the void created by the region’s cartel-induced media blackout.
Mexico must act to protect online free speech
María del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, best known under the pseudonym "Felina", was kidnapped by armed men on 15 October in the Mexican state of...