Mexico, Dec 27 (Prensa Latina) With 29 reporters murdered and four forced missing in nine countries, 2013 has been a tragic year for reporters in this region, confirmed today a report of the Investigation Commission of Journalists Attacks (ICJA).

Mexico, with seven murders of journalists and information workers and four forced missing; and Brazil with seven violent deaths, heads the list of that commission of the Latin American Federation of Journalists (LAFJ).

It is followed by Guatemala, Colombia and Honduras, with four in each country, while in Ecuador, Peru and Nicaragua there were one per capita until completing 33 victims.

ICJA-LAFJ report recalled that those crimes took place in a region where there is not formal war and among the victims are journalists from 3 countries.

(Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia) implement protection mechanisms for the media workers, approved by law as governmental initiative.

He added that totalling hundreds the failed attempt of murder, threaten to death to journalists, attacks, different types of attacks and armed attacks to the media.

According to statistics published by ICJA-LAFJ in the last seven years has been murdered 228 journalists in the region, out of them 27 in 2007; 26 in 2008; 32 in 2009; 40 in 2010; 39 in 2011; 30 in 2012 and 33 in 2013.

The union entity noted that by committing unpunished murder, attacks and threatens, certain political factual powers, acting in the darkness, seek to silence the media.

The UN General Assembly unanimously adopted last November 27, a Security Resolution for Journalists and established November 2 as “International Day to Put End to Impunity of Crimes Against Journalists”, evokes LAFJ.

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