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Been waiting half her life since Spurs last won a game of football but we finally got there #COYSThe only baby that matters / the future is unwritten#LCDSoundsystem #Ceremonia2024Alberto Amaro Jordán, the founder of La Prensa de Tlaxcala, has lived under state protection for five years and suffered an array of threats and attacks by police officers and cartel members. But Mexico's federal mechanism for the protection of journalists tried to have his bodyguards removed last year, having inexplicably deemed him no longer at risk. Alberto won an injunction to maintain his bodyguards but his future - and that of his family - remains uncertain. Read the full story at the link in my bio.Gustavo Sánchez, who covered crime and politics on the coast of Oaxaca, was gunned down while riding his motorbike with his son on 17 June 2021. He had asked for help from Mexico's federal mechanism for the protection of journalists after surviving a previous assassination attempt 13 months earlier, and he continued to suffer a spate of other attacks in the meantime. Yet the mechanism failed to provide him with any protective measures throughout this period, leaving him helpless when the killers struck. Read the full story at the link in my bio.The local crime reporter Rubén Pat was shot dead as he left this bar in Playa del Carmen early on 24 July 2018. He had enrolled in Mexico's federal mechanism for the protection of journalists two months earlier, but the authorities failed to keep him safe. One of his employees was also shot dead weeks before him, and another colleague of his, who was also under state protection, was shot and killed the following year. Read the full story at the link in my bio.The authorities in Mexico, one of the world’s deadliest countries for journalists, are failing to protect the press. Eight journalists have been killed while enrolled in Mexico's federal mechanism for the protection of journalists in the last seven years.Ellie Rose Tucker Moreno was born on 15 February at 00:00 hours. She's already a cat person and fully COYS 😍
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