Elia Baltazar is co-editor of Excelsior, a newspaper. With Daniela Pastrana she co-founded Journalists on Foot (Periodistas de a Pie), which promotes the professionalism of journalists, and Los Queremos Vivos (“We Want Them Alive”), which gives journalists a platform to speak out about freedom of expression and to denounce attacks against journalists. They were involved in organizing the protest demonstration of journalists in Mexico City on August 7, 2010.
