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Javier Valdez Cárdenas (April 14, 1967 – May 15, 2017) was a Mexican journalist and founder of Ríodoce, a newspaper based in Sinaloa. He received several international awards for his writings on drug trafficking and organized crime in the Mexican Drug War .
Mexico has asked the United States to extradite the suspected mastermind behind the murder of journalist Javier Valdez after he was arrested on drug charges, the attorney general said.. Damaso ...
Mexican officials say cartel boss Damaso Lopez Serrano ordered the killing of well-known journalist Javier Valdez in 2017. Mexico asks US to hand over 'mastermind' in journalist's killing Skip to ...
Award-winning Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas was murdered on 15 May 2017. With traditional media being too intimidating to reporters, some newspapers in Mexico have self-censored and stopped writing about drug trafficking and organized crime. Others simply limit their coverage to the information found in official government press ...
López Serrano, 37, is wanted by Mexican authorities, who have identified him as "the mastermind" behind the 2017 killing of Javier Valdez Cárdenas, a prominent Sinaloan journalist.
The murder rate in 2009 was 8.4 per 100,000 — by comparison, higher than the 5.6 in New York City [64] but much less than the 14.8 in Atlanta. [ 65 ] In Mexico City, the area of Iztapalapa has the highest rates of rape , violence against women , and domestic violence in the capital.
The 2012 Nuevo Laredo massacres were a series of mass murder attacks between the allied Sinaloa Cartel and Gulf Cartel against Los Zetas in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, across the U.S.-Mexico border from Laredo, Texas. The drug-violence in Nuevo Laredo began back in 2003, when the city was controlled by the Gulf Cartel.
In 2011, Valdez Cárdenas was awarded the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists, "an annual recognition of courageous journalism". [2] Later in the same year, the trustees of Columbia University awarded Ríodoce the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for journalism that contributes to "inter-American understanding". [ 3 ]