The crime that exists in Mexico is often compared to a country at war.
One hundred daily victims, a few years more, others less, so the decades go by.
The news repeats, without much effect, that 10 women are murdered a day, a police officer every day, dozens of politicians on election campaigns and several journalists a year.
Not to mention other killings.
Only under certain circumstances do citizens come out of their lethargy, as happened this January, after the murder of three reporters, two of them in Tijuana within a week.
The case of Lourdes Maldonado has had a special impact, because she participated in one of the president's morning conferences almost three years ago.
She asked for her support because she feared for her life.
A bullet has proven him right.
In Mexico, the tiredness of information professionals has resulted these days in numerous protests in 23 states and dozens of cities.
They live under a spiral of violence that, when it does not end their lives, condemns them to silence.
There are areas in the country where the media no longer reports shootings, or organized crime, or the most corrupt politics.
They call them, with a sweet euphemism, zones of silence.
Many reporters have left the office or moved elsewhere to protect themselves.
The rot that nests in the institutions has a difficult way out: political power colluded with crime and justice absent due to fear or the same collusion of interests.
More than 90% of cases go unpunished.
The media noise due to the pain of the latest victims has prompted governments and prosecutors to show some diligence in sentencing and investigations. But many wonder at what point the lights will go out and the dilatory practices of justice will return to their usual channels. For years, decades, some cases have been sleeping in court files, when everyone knows where the violence comes from or who the murderers or their masterminds are. The pattern repeats itself: uncomfortable information, threats and intimidation and, finally, the noise of gunpowder.
Killing a journalist, as has been recalled in the many protests, is murdering the truth, silencing a necessary counter-power for democracy, something that no State should allow.
It is obvious that to put an end to this evil is beyond the possibilities of a single government, an institutional mobilization of all powers is necessary.
This Tuesday, in dozens of cities in Mexico a protest was ignited and a common voice was heard.
It is necessary that all the weight of the State, although weak in Mexico, fall on the criminals and that the few and in many cases ineffective protection measures improve.
Only then can the lost trust be restored.
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