Hello, my name is Chelsi Carter. I am creating this page for a Mass Communications class. I will be writing about Ana María Marcela Yarce Viveros, journalist for the magazine Contralínea, who was found dead in a park in Mexico City by an early-morning jogger in 2011. Marcela was found dead with another woman and the two women had been strangled; they were discovered naked with their hands and feet tied and rope around their necks. It still is not clear why they were murdered.
Their killings follow a pattern of murders by organised crime gangs and drug cartels. But they are the first such killings of media workers in the nation's capital city.
Alison Bethel McKenzie, director of the International Press Institute (IPI), said: "The brave men and women of Mexico's media should not be put through such horrors for working to uphold the public's fundamental right to information."
The two women, both in their 40s, were long-time friends and were last seen having coffee together on Wednesday night at a city centre cafe.
The killings bring to 10 the number of media workers killed in Mexico this year, which means that the country has surpassed Iraq as the deadliest in the world for journalists.
Credits: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/sep/05/journalist-safety-mexico http://hidingunderthebedisnottheanswer.wordpress.com/tag/ana-maria-marcela-yarce-viveros/
Adopt a Journalist assignment edit
- Comm 192 (Fall 2012)
- I'm writing my first article about Raghida Dergham (living person) from Lebanon and her work in the United States as a journalist. This will be my first article in Wikipedia.