Carmen Aristegui. Photo by Alexandre Meneghini, AP
Journalist
Carmen Aristegui was fired by MVS Radio on March 15. Two other reporters, Daniel Lizarraga and Irving Huerta, were fired last week. Political commentator Denise Dresser, and academics Sergio Aguayo and Lorenzo Meyer, announced the termination of their relationship with MVS Radio in support of Aristegui.
From a story by AP, published in the Washington Post: "The crusading host of Mexico’s top-rated national news radio program has been fired in a case that many fear is a blow to freedom of expression.
"MVS Radio said Sunday that Carmen Aristegui was removed for challenging the firing of two reporters who had misused the company’s name by suggesting it was a sponsor of MexicoLeaks, a website meant to reveal leaked information on corruption in Mexico.
"The company said in a statement that it could not accept 'an ultimatum.'
"There was widespread outrage because of the sharp tone used in the firings and the Mexican press’ history of subservience to governments through most of the 20th century. Aristegui’s program was a prominent example of how the news media was becoming more combative and independent." Here is the full AP story: Mexican journalist fired; had revealed presidential scandal
Nathaniel Parish Flannery weighed in on this topic for Forbes: Firing Of Dissident Journalist Carmen Aristegui Bad News For Mexico Excerpt: "Mexican political activist Denise Dresser tweeted that "the crime of Carmen Aristegui was to try to give Mexican citizens through #MexicoLeaks a platform to denounce corruption anonymously. Since she was going to receive tons of complaints they shut her up.'"
Article from Borderland Beat: MVS fires Journalist Carmen Aristegui
And, finally, a statement from Aristegui herself (in Spanish):
She said that her lawyers would fight this, and her dismissal was an "abuse of freedom of expression".