In Mexico, the killing of camera operator and video editor Roberto Toledo in Zitácuaro, a town 80 miles west of Mexico City, marks the fourth media worker killed in the country in less than a month in 2022.
CPJ Latin America and the Caribbean Program Coordinator Natalie Southwick discussed the climate for journalists in Mexico in the latest episode of the “The Take” podcast from Al-Jazeera.
Meanwhile, in the 12 months since the Myanmar military coup on February 1, 2021, the junta has escalated repression of journalists by intimidating, censoring, arresting, detaining, and outright killing journalists who report on their crimes and abuses.
The junta generals seek to further silence critical voices with new proposed cybersecurity legislation that aims to make virtual private networks illegal, among other provisions.
In a new opinion piece for CPJ, Senior Southeast Asia Representative Shawn Crispin examines the dire state of press freedom in the country and local journalists’ brave efforts to fight back.
