Jorge Barrera

In Mexico for CBC News. Previously with the CBC News Investigative and Indigenous Units Email: jorge.barrera(at) DM (open) me for Signal/cell

[Jorge Barrera @JorgeBarrera]

Inside the police investigation into the human smuggling network behind the deaths of nine people on the St. Lawrence River in 2023.

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[CPJ Américas @CPJAmericas]

#mexico - “The brutal killing of Josué Martínez, in front of his child and in broad daylight, is the fourth such deadly attack on a Mexican journalist in just over four weeks in what is rapidly becoming one of the deadliest years in recent memory for the Mexican press,” said Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico representative. “Time and time again Mexican authorities show their unwillingness to make the country safer for reporters by allowing these attacks to occur in almost complete impunity.”

Josué Martínez’s killing follows the deaths of Mexican journalists Luis Ángel López, killed in Veracruz state on June 11, Roxana Guzmán, abducted June 2 in Veracruz and whose remains were identified on July 3, and Alex Serna, who was abducted in Guerrero state on June 20 and whose remains were found on July 3.
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[Emeequis @emeequis]

Matan a balazos al periodista Alejandro Leyva en Oaxaca. En su última columna atribuyó los pésimos resultados de la Guelaguetza al gobernador Salomón Jara y acusó a su hermano Noé de estar vinculado al cobro de piso.
https://t.co/jEKQ6YQ0Ah

[Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo]

Five journalists murdered in six weeks in a country not officially at war would be an absolute crisis in most countries.

In Mexico, many people are sadly seeing it as more of the same. Tragic.

[CPJ Américas @CPJAmericas]

#Mexico CPJ strongly condemns the killing of journalist Alejandro Leyva Aguilar, earlier today in the state of Oaxaca. Leyva, an opinion writer and former director of broadcaster CORTV, was shot dead in a restaurant in the city of San Pablo Etla.

https://t.co/QcDSAiAaCf

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The couple, Cindy Thompson and Glenn Brown of Curve Lake, Ont., sent $280,000 Cdn to a company co-owned by a British and Mexican national who promised big returns on a condo-flip play in Playa del Carmen that never materialized. https://t.co/jsPuQYwiWG

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Eleven year-old Emma says the earthquakes destroyed her school and soon she'll have to say goodbye to all her friends because her mother wants to move away from Catia La Mar, in the Venezuelan state of La Guaira, over fears the Earth will shake again. https://t.co/YpLASY8UZ1

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While under the dining room table in total darkness, Astrid Arnaude told her daughter, Jade Hernández, that if death came before their rescue, they would meet again in another life.  https://t.co/TSQeyafWcp

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Venezuelan doctor Marianyi Bastidas says she put her job on the line in Chile for a one-way ticket to a disaster zone. https://t.co/G96vV34VFM

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When Carmen Luiza Diaz de Cumare heard shouts about a body being pulled from a mountain of crumbled concrete, she scrambled up and around the bent and twisted rebar and over crevices where an apartment tower once stood in this central parr of La Guaira. https://t.co/xH3gecxB1Z

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The future seems dark and dangerous for some Venezuelans amid the dust, debris and death shrouding parts of the country that suffered the brunt of twin earthquakes, creating one of the worst natural disasters in its history. https://t.co/geRK4VH0Mu

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Death is everywhere in Playa Grande, a beachfront neighbourhood in Catia del Mar, a city in the Venezuelan state of La Guaira which was devastated by Wednesday's back-to-back earthquakes, says Rober Javier. https://t.co/QLkD5QS4bt

[Carlos Loret de Mola @CarlosLoret]

#Loret en @latinus_us
Este enlace de Jorge Monroy es un poema 😂😂😂

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Canada and the U.S. can't top Mexico's World Cup vibe, says Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.  https://t.co/6QU0Dl8OIg

[Jorge Barrera @JorgeBarrera]

@lioness0817 Good evening, I am a journalist with CBC based in Mexico and would very much like to hear your story. Please let me know if you would be open for an interview. DM’s open. Cheers

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@lioness0817 @YouTube @dsimieritsch @PierrePoilievre Hi, I am a reporter and working on a story about this from Mexico. I was wondering if I could get in touch. Feel free to DM me, it's open. cheers, Jorge

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Mexico’s Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard says virtual meeting set for July 1 between Mex-Can-US to discuss CUSMA and whether to extend for 16 years or take other paths.

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The 2026 World Cup anticipation is a mere shadow of the feelings that gripped Mexico when it hosted the 1986 tournament in the wake of an earthquake that devastated Mexico City, says writer and urbanologist Roberto Remes.  https://t.co/NwArUBaWet

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This year, teachers' unions, farmers, social justice groups and family organizations — called collectives — searching for the estimated 133,000 disappeared in the country are all planning to protest while the global spotlight shines on Mexico. https://t.co/qndfVTA758

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Authorities in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí recently arrested 2 people linked to a Facebook page critical of the local government under a new A.I. law that human rights and press freedom groups warn is being used to suppress political dissent.
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