Armed men kidnapped a journalist in Mexico
In the Mexican state of Veracruz, armed men abducted journalist Roxana Guzmán right from her home, a development that has already sparked a strong reaction from human rights advocates and calls for an immediate investigation. Her whereabouts are currently unknown, and authorities are investigating all the circumstances of the incident.
Mexico has seen yet another high-profile kidnapping of a journalist, which has once again highlighted the scale of the security problem for media workers in a country where violence against the press has long been an alarming everyday occurrence, and this time the victim was Roxana Berenice Guzman Rodriguez, founder and editor of the local Facebook news page Pulso Informativo del Sureste.
According to the Veracruz State Attorney General’s Office, the incident occurred on June 2 in the city of Nanchital, when armed men broke into her home, and a video is already circulating online showing the unknown assailants breaking down the door and threatening the woman and her family, after which she was forcibly taken away in an unknown direction, and since then there has been no precise information about her fate, including whether the kidnappers have made any demands.
Human rights advocates from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have called on the Mexican authorities to act immediately, emphasizing that the Guzman case is yet another painful example of how, in a country that already has one of the highest rates of journalist disappearances in the world, crimes against the press often go unpunished or are solved far too slowly, and CPJ representative Jan-Albert Hutsen stated bluntly: “The brazen abduction of Roxana Guzman in broad daylight shocks even Mexico… It is of the utmost importance that the Veracruz authorities ensure Guzman’s return to her family and bring the attackers to justice.”
It is known that Pulso Informativo del Sureste primarily covers local events—from infrastructure issues to crime and accidents—has about 21,000 subscribers, and had not previously reported any threats against its editor, and the local Commission for the Protection of Journalists also confirms the absence of such reports prior to the abduction, which only raises further questions about the motives behind the attack and its organizers. This is reported by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
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