Freedom of Speech Award: Limbourg applauds Anabel Hernández

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Deutsche Welle Director General Peter Limbourg on why Anabel Hernández will receive the 2019 DW Freedom of Speech Award.

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Anabel Hernández honored with DW Freedom of Speech Award 2019

A daring journalist who has spent her career reporting on drug cartels and corruption in Mexico, Anabel Hernández is the fifth person — and first woman — to receive the Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award. (19.02.2019)

'There is no free press': Freedom of speech in Mexico

The third deadliest country in the world for journalists, Mexico saw nine journalists murdered in 2018. Their deaths are a worrying sign of the state of press freedom, as is increasing aggression toward the media. (19.02.2019)

Opinion: Mexico is a country to despair over

Mexico is the third most dangerous country for working journalists — a record that demands solidarity for survival. But all citizens of Mexico live with the same insecurity that journalists do, says Uta Thofern. (19.02.2019)

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