Mourners gather to remember journalist Mauricio Cruz Solis after he was shot dead in western Mexico. "What happened to our colleague is very sad, but we have learned over the last 20 years that the mechanisms for the protection of journalists are null and void and that impunity prevails," says one local reporter outside the funeral. Solis, a host on local radio station La Poderosa Uruapan who also published news on the Minuto x Minuto outlet, was killed in the city of Uruapan. Wracked by violence related to drug trafficking, Mexico is one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists, news advocacy groups say. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES