Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
A lens on Venezuelan street crime
By  • 5 May 2017
"The drug trade is why we still have the government we have." Adriana Fernández first wielded a camera at the age of 16 to take pictures of friends involved in the graffiti scene in her…
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Project Exile: After flight, Colombian struggles to resume reporting
By  • 30 April 2015
"I have three bodyguards that come with me everywhere, I always use an armored vehicle." In 2011, Colombian journalist Mary Luz Avedaño published two investigative pieces about drug cartels in her home city of Medellín.…
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Mexican editor flees after abduction
By  • 10 February 2015
A newspaper editor in the border city of Matamoros, Mexico has fled the city after being abducted and beaten by gunmen following the newspaper's reports on drug cartel-related violence in the area. Enrique Juarez Torres,…
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Disappeared students ignite Mexican discontent
By  • 4 December 2014
The apparent killings of 43 teaching students has proved a tipping point for Mexico's public. Government corruption is nothing new in Mexico. But the wave of recent protests in response to the disappearance of 43…
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Mexican magazine does 'suicide journalism'
By  • 30 June 2014
ZETA’s offices are easy to miss. Since Jesús Blancornelas founded the Mexican magazine with Francisco Ortiz Franco and political columnist Hector Felix Miranda, [caption id="attachment_2881" align="alignright" width="214"] Zeta magazine's Adela Navarro, Courtesy of the Missouri…
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