New Book Examines Mexican Journalists’ Resolve

Death. Disappearance. Surveillance.

Two professors from the University of Arizona School of Journalism have written a book highlighting the dangerous conditions under which Mexican journalists do their jobs.

In “Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century,” Professors Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly examine how the Mexican government protects Mexican organized crime while the murders and disappearances of journalists go unsolved.

Since 2000, more than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico, according to the country’s National Commission of Human Rights. And Mexico is one of the top 10 countries in the...