After the killing of his family and five of his colleagues, Mexican reporter and photographer Miguel Ángel López Solana urged journalistic organizations to protect journalists in the state of Veracruz on Tuesday, May 22, during the 10th annual Austin Forum on Journalism in the Americas, themed Security and Protection for Journalists and organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and the Open Society Foundations. “I'm worried about my colleagues in Veracruz,” said the journalist, age 31, who lost his father, Miguel Ángel López Velasco, who was the news editor and columnist for the newspaper Notiver; his brother Misael López Solana, reporter for the same newspaper; and his mother, Agustina Solana, in June 2011 when armed individuals raided their house and shot them ...
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