Press Freedoms Questioned as Another Journalist Is Slain in State of Veracruz The Associated Press
go to original March 20, 2017

Another Journalist Slain in Mexico (Wochit News)

A gunman shot and killed a journalist on Sunday in the Mexican state of Veracruz, adding to the toll in a state plagued by drug-gang violence and allegations of government corruption.

Ricardo Monlui was leaving a restaurant with his wife and a son in the town of Yanga, outside the larger city of Cordoba, when a man who appeared to have been waiting shot him twice and fled, local police chief Carlos Samuel Hernandez said.

Mr Monlui's wife and son were apparently unhurt.

He is at least the 11th journalist to be killed in just over six years in Veracruz state but the first since former governor Javier Duarte quit last year and vanished in the face of corruption charges.

New governor Miguel Angel Yunes, who took office in December, expressed indignation at the killing.

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