Surviving Mexico

Celeste González de Bustamante is an associate professor at the University of Arizona School of Journalism, where she directs the Center for Border and Global Journalism. She is the author of “Muy buenas noches”: Mexico, Television, and the Cold War and coeditor of Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media, and Provincial Politics. Jeannine E. Relly is a professor with the School of Journalism and School of Government & Public Policy (with courtesy) at the University of Arizona. She is affiliated with the Center for Latin American Studies. Before joining academia, she worked as a journalist for news outlets in the Caribbean, the Mexico-US borderlands, and several US states. She is the director of Global Initiatives at the UA School of Journalism.

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mexico’s Peripheries as a Case Study for Violence against Journalists around the World
Part I. The Past, Place, and Politics of Violence against Journalists

1. How Journalists Became Their Own Activists: A Historical Perspective
2. Place Matters: The Promise and Limits of the Periphery
3. Moving Targets and Perpetrators: Mercurial Violence, Ownership, and Changing Journalism Practices


Part II. Murdering the Messengers and Controlling the Message

4. Red Light, Green Light: Strategies of Resistance among Journalists in the Peripheries
5. The Personal and Familial Toll: Violence, Trauma, and Resilience
6. Social Media, Digital Insecurity, and Journalists’ Safety


Part III. Structured and Unstructured Attempts to Save Journalism and Journalists

7. Attempts to Intervene
8. State Actors, Violence, and Resilience among Organized Crime Groups
9. Women on the Frontline: Resistance and Resilience in Ciudad Juárez


Conclusion: Toward a More Secure Journalism Future
Appendix: Journalists Killed in Mexico 2000–2020, by Presidential Administration
Notes
References
Index