; Whereas, in Mexico, which remains the most dangerous country in the Western Hemisphere for journalists— (1) murders, death threats, and legal impunity cause journalists to self-censor their reporting out of fear; (2) according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 13 journalists were killed in Mexico in 2022, the highest number the press freedom organization has ever documented in a single year in the country since it started keeping records in 1992; (3) 28 journalists are currently counted as forcibly disappeared in Mexico, according to Reporters Without Borders; (4) Mexico’s Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists lacks the resources and political support to provide adequate protection to all journalists under threat who have requested protection; (5) Fredid Román, founder of the La Realidad newspaper and a columnist for the Vértice de Chilpancingo newspaper, was shot and killed in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero in August 2022, exemplifying the government’s failure to make the country safe for reporters; (6) Alfonso Margarito Martínez Esquivel, 49, a photojournalist who specialized in covering crime, was gunned down in Tijuana on January 17, 2022, and he worked for the magazine Semanario Zeta, while often also covering stories for the newspaper Zeta and the daily La Jornada de Baja California; and (7) Lourdes Maldonado López was gunned down on January 23, 2022, outside her home in Tijuana, by 2 individuals who arrived in a taxi and picked up their spent bullet casings before leaving, and an experienced and very outspoken journalist committed to combating violence and corruption, Maldonado was the founder and host of Brebaje con Lourdes Maldonado, a local news program on Facebook; Whereas, in Haiti, at least 7 journalists were killed in 2022, including 2 by the police, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists