Journalists Under Attack in Mexico: Deaths in Oaxaca, Veracruz and Guanajuato The Canadian Press
go to original July 4, 2015

In Veracruz Mexico, Being a Journalist Can Mean Risking Your Life (AJ+)

Media rights groups on Friday demanded that authorities investigate the deaths of three journalists in Mexico over the past week.

On Thursday, radio journalist Filadelfo Sanchez Sarmiento was shot dead by two attackers as he walked out of the La Favorita 103.3 FM station in Miahuatlan de Porfirio Diaz in Oaxaca state, officials said.

...Also Thursday, journalist Juan Mendoza Delgado died from being run over by a car. He ran a news website in the city of Medellin de Bravo in Veracruz state, and had disappeared the day before his death.

In Guanajuato state, Gerardo Nieto Alvarez, director of the weekly Tabano, died on June 26 in the town of Comonfort after being stabbed in the neck while drinking in a bar.

...According to CPJ, more than 50 Mexican journalists have been killed or disappeared since 2007.

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