Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists and among the ones with the highest levels of unsolved crimes against the press.Though the exact figures of those killed are often conflicting.
Press freedom organizations around the world agree through general consensus that Mexico is among the most dangerous countries on the planet to exercise journalism as a profession.
Nothing of this stop Javier Valdez to be the most important journalist talking about the situation of the drug war , cartel, people killed, politicians, and more In the actual place that belongs to the Cartel of Sinaloa, the city of Culiacán .
Biography of Javier Valdez Cárdenas
Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas made the leap as a writer in 2006. He was born in the city of Culiacán Rosales in 1967 and studied Sociology at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa.
He has worked as a journalist in different media, such as Channel 3 television or the newspapers Noroeste and La Jornada. He founded the weekly newspaper Ríodoce,step by step he get specialized in drug trafficking, human traffic ,and organized crime. On these subjects they treat their journalistic essays.
The first book saw the light in 2006, De Azoteas and Olvidos, and have followed Miss Narco, Los morros del narco, Levantones , With a grenade in the mouth,malayerba.
In 2011, the Mexican author was awarded the International Press Freedom Award, which recognizes the work of courageous journalists in the exercise of their work.
Just last October, Javier told the EFE news agency that "courageous" and "dignified" journalism in Mexico "has no society around, is alone," and that's why it is increasingly scarce in a country where crime Organized and corrupt governments impose silence at gun bullets or money.
