Another Journalist Was Just Murdered in One of Mexico's Most Corrupt States Karla Casillas - VICE News
go to original July 21, 2016

Murdered journalist Rubén Tamayo (El Piñero de la Cuenca)

A Mexican journalist who covered crime for a local newspaper has become the 17th journalist killed in the southern state of Veracruz in the last six years. Attackers shot 48-year-old Pedro Tamayo multiple times in front of his wife and two children, just steps away from his home. He died while receiving medical attention in a hospital, Veracruz's prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Tamayo had received death threats for his reporting in an area controlled by the Zetas drug cartel, known as Tierra Blanca. He initially fled to Oaxaca, but returned when the Veracruz authorities promised to investigate his case and provide him with police protection. But that did not stop attackers from shooting him eight times.

"According to extra official reports, a lone man arrived to Tamayo's house in a grey car," local newspaper El Piñero de la Cuenca reported. "After committing the crime, the offender fled the scene in an unknown direction."

Local newspapers like Al Calor Político and El Piñero de la Cuenca frequently published Tamayo's work on violence in his municipality. Sometimes he wrote under the pseudonym En la línea de fuego, or In the line of fire.

"Outrage means nothing to our demands for justice for this series of aggressions against reporters in Veracruz," read El Piñero de la Cuenca's story about Tamayo's death. "Rest in peace, colleague Tamayo."

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