On January 2nd, 2026, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) in Spanish, released a report on journalists killed in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2025. You can see it here.
According to the IFJ/FIP, there were at least 11 journalists murdered in the region in 2025. In addition, there were 8 other cases that might also count, except that they are still under investigation or it’s not proven that they were actually killed for their journalistic work.
In Mexico there were three confirmed murders of journalists. In addition there are five still under investigation.
Click here for the IFJ list of all 128 journalists killed worldwide.
The three confirmed murdered journalists in Mexico were:
1. Calletano de Jesús Guerrero, of the Global Mexico social media platform, on January 17th, 2025. According to the IFJ report, “Armed individuals on motorcycles attacked journalist Calletano de Jesús Guerrero in the parking lot of the San Antonio parish on 17 January. The journalist was killed despite having had state protection for more than ten years.”
2. Kristian Zavala, of El Silaoense, on February 3rd, 2025. According to the report, “Journalist Kristian Zavala was shot dead in the early hours of 2 March in Silao, Guanajuato, while inside a vehicle with another person. Zavala covered local politics and public safety on his social media page El Silaoense and had been under state protection since 2021 due to threats related to his reporting.”
3. Miguel Angel Beltran, October 25th, 2025. According to the report, “The body of Miguel Ángel Beltrán, journalist and owner of the news outlet La Gazzetta Durango, was found on a section of the Durango–Mazatlán highway.”
Other countries in the region on the list are Peru, with 4, Ecuador (1 confirmed and 2 still under investigation, Guatemala (two as yet unconfirmed cases), Columbia (1) and Honduras (1).
Another organization, RSF (Reporters Without Borders), released a report covering the period from December 1st, 2024, to December 1st, 2025. You can see it here and here.
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According to that report, “In Mexico, organised crime groups are responsible for the alarming spike in journalist murders seen in 2025. This year has been the deadliest of the past three years — at least — and Mexico is the second most dangerous country in the world for journalists, with nine killed.”
RSF says nine journalists were killed in Mexico, while IFJ says there were 3 confirmed and 5 under investigation.
Both lists included the three slain journalists mentioned above.