In 2011 were killed 74 journalists in the world, including one in RD

This year 74 journalists were murdered and these cases 33 are being still under investigation, he said yesterday the Committee to protect journalists (CPJ, for its acronym in English).

The CPJ, which yesterday announced a part of the report will be published next week on dead informants while they exercised their work this year, pointed to Pakistan as the country where cases occurred, with seven deaths, followed by Iraq and Libya, with five in each case and Mexico, with three.

This list also appear elsewhere as Barein, Afghanistan, Egypt, Yemen, Philippines and Brazil, where there were two murders of journalists in each one of them, and others as Peru Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Somalia, Thailand, Viet Nam, Ivory Coast, Syria, Tunisia, where each of them registered a case.

This body advocate of the rights of journalists and freedom of the press, based in New York, noted that "41" u000a"journalists were murdered in 2011 and confirmed reasons", which means that their deaths occurred during the practice of his profession at the crossroads of fire in combat situation or a professional assignment dangerous.

That was the case of the photojournalists Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington, who died April 20 past during the taking of Misrata in Libya.

And the Mexican journalist Maria Elizabeth Castro Macías, collaborator of the digital newspaper Nuevo Laredo live, who wrote on criminal gangs and whose corpse was beheaded the last 24 of September.

Another Mexican, Noel Lopez Olguín, columnist of the newspaper the truth of Jáltipan, Veracruz State, was abducted and died in March of 2011 in Chinameca, after writing a column entitled "lead feather", critical with drug trafficking and corruption.

The third Mexican the CPJ considers as assassinated while he exerted his profession is the u000aphotographer Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo, el diario La Prensa, kidnapped after participating in a program of TV with José Luis Cerda Meléndez, and a cousin of Juan Gómez.

The three were murdered with gunshot wounds in the head, and the scene of the crime appeared the message of "No longer cooperate with los Zetas," one of the drug cartels, said the CPJ.

"In a strange twist, an armed individual moved the body of Cerda in the crime scene to another location, according to the EFE agency", said the CPJ, which added the testimony of the director of La Prensa, Jesus Medina: "Luis was an accidental victim".

Also records the case of the Brazilian House Gelson Domingos da Silva, of 46 years, he worked for TV Bandeirantes and died in Rio de Janeiro victim of a clash between police and a gang of drug traffickers.

Another Brazilian, Edinaldo Filgueira, 36, and founder and editor of the journal or Serrano, was u000akilled on 15 June in Serra do Mel, and according to the Organization, he mentions that the local press, his death was related "to the publication of a survey that criticized the work of local government".

"The head of the federal police Marcelo Mosele, told the CPJ researchers related the death of Filgueira with his journalistic work", he said the organization.

Information about Peruvian journalist Pedro Alfonso Flores Silva, 36 years old and that he was working for Channel 6, cost him life on 8 September last in Chimbote, after "accusations of corruption against Marco Rivero Huertas, Mayor of the District Commander Noel", said the organization.

Also pointed out that its reports on drug trafficking killed in August moved to the Dominican José Agustín Silvestre de los Santos, of 59 years and worked for the voice of truth and cane TV, in addition to collecting that according to police data "the attack was" u000a"ordered by Matías Avelino Castro, also known as Joaquin spinal Almeyda, owner of hotels and drug trafficker".

The organization estimated at 33 journalists whose deaths are still investigated, "it is possible that they were killed by their profession", as the Peruvians Jose Oquendo Reyes (Radio wings Peruanas, BTV channel 45) and Julio Castillo Narvaez, (Ollantay Radio).

In that same case are Brazilians Valderlei Canute Leandro (Radio Maria), Auro Ida (Olhar Direto, Midianews), Valério Nascimento (Panorama Geral) and Luciano Leitão Pedrosa (TV Vitória and metropolitan FM Radio).

Is also the case of the Mexican Humberto Millán Salazar (A discussion, Radio formula), Yolanda Ordaz of the cross, Misael López Solana, Miguel Ángel López Velasco, all workers of the world newspaper, and the Colombian "freelance" Luis Eduardo Gómez.

Also are under investigation the death of Honduran journalists Nery Geremías Orellana u000a(Radio Joconguera, Radio progress), Luis Ernesto Mendoza Cerrato (channel 24), Héctor Francisco Medina Polanco (Omega vision), the Guatemalan Yensi Roberto Ordoñez Galdámez (channel 14) and the Venezuelan Wilfred Ivan Ojeda (El Clarín).

The deaths of the Paraguayan Merardo Alejandro Romero Chávez (the voice of Ytakyry), the Salvadoran Alfredo Antonio Hurtado (channel 33) and the Bolivian child David de Guzmán (News Fides Agency), are also investigated by the CPJ.

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