REPORTERO DE VERACRUZ, BUSCARA ASILO POLITICO EN EEUU.
DONDE: Oficinas Legales de Carlos Spector, 1430 E. Yandell, El Paso, Texas, 79902
Han habido ocho reporteros y fotografos assesinados solamente en Veracruz durante los ultimos 18 meses. Tres de los asesinados inclyuen la madre, el padre y hermano de Miguel Angel Lopez - Solana. Segun el Comite Para Proteger Reporteros han habido a lo menos 45 reporters y fotografos asesinados en Mexico durante los ultimos anos. Solamente este mes 6 reporteros y fotografos han sido asesinados en Mexico.
Miguel Angel presentara su historia manana durante la conferencia de prensa.
Miguel Angel Lopez Solana, hijo del columinista asesinado brutalmente en Mexico en el estado de Veracruz con su familia en Junio 2011, describio a participantes al 10 (DEcimo) Anual Foro sobre Periodismo en las Americas en Austin, Texas, los (obstaculos, contratiempos) que enfrento y lo forzaron a abandonar Mexico por temor que su vida estaba en peligro.
Durante el Foro, declaro que esta buscando asilo politico en los eeuu y solicito proteccion para sus colegas en Veracruz, donde 6 reporteros del periodico Notiver han sido asesinados incluyendo su padre, Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco, quien era el editor asistente del periodico, y tambien su hermano, Misael LOpez Solana, fotografo para el mismo periodico.
Presentemente, Veracruz is la ciudad mas peligrosa en el mundo para reporteros, y Mexico es el pais mas peligroso en America para reporteros, segun Reporteros sin Fronteras.
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:32 PM, molly <[email protected]> wrote:
More on conditions for Veracruz journalists at this Knight Center video: http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/en/node/10270 Mas sobre condiciones para Reporteros en VeraCruz
Law Offices of Carlos Spector
Press Conference
MIGUEL ANGEL LOPEZ-SOLANA, REPORTER FROM VERACRUZ,
SEEKS ASYLUM IN THE US
Where: Offices of Carlos Spector, 1430 E. Yandell, El Paso, TX 79902
When: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m.
There have been eight journalists and photojournalists killed in Veracruz alone over the past 18
months. Three of those killed include Miguel Angel Lopez-Solana’s mother, father and brother.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists there have been at least 45 reporters and
photographers killed in Mexico in just the past few years.
This month alone at least 6 reporters and photojournalists have been murdered in Mexico.
Miguel Angel will share his story tomorrow during the press conference.
For more information call Sandra Spector or Crystal Massey at (915) 544-0441
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Video is in Spanish…, but it gives a great review of how journalists in Veracruz have been threatened. “Impunity is the source of all violence in Mexico,” he said.
http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/en/node/10270
Miguel Ángel López Solana, son of the Mexican columnist brutally killed in the state of Veracruz along with his family in June 2011, described to participants of the 10th annual Austin Forum on Journalism in the Americas the ordeals he faced to flee Mexico because of fear that his life was in jeopardy.
During the Forum, he announced that he is seeking political asylum in the United States, and he called for protection for his colleagues in Veracruz, where six journalists from the newspaper Notiver have been killed, including his father, Miguel Ángel López Velasco, who was the newspaper’s assistant editor, and his brother, Misael López Solana, photographer for the same newspaper.
Currently, Veracruz is the most dangerous city in the world for journalists, and Mexico is the most dangerous country in the Americas for journalists, according to Reporters Without Borders.