Veracruz News Editor Shot as Attacks Against Mexico's Journalists Continue to Soar Gabriel Stargardter - Thomson Reuters
go to original March 29, 2017

Journalists and activists in Mexico City protest the murder of Mexican journalist Miroslava Breach earlier this month (Reuters)

A Mexican journalist was shot and injured early on Wednesday in the eastern state of Veracruz, the state attorney general's office said, the latest in a spate of attacks against reporters in Mexico.

The 51-year-old news editor at La Opinion de Poza Rica, a newspaper in the violent oil-drilling city of Poza Rica in the drug-ravaged state, was shot outside his home early on Wednesday morning. The attorney general's office in a statement identified him only as 'A.A.G.' but the State Commission for the Protection of Journalists named him as Armando Arrieta Granados.

The wounded editor is in hospital, the statement said, and local media said he was in "grave" condition. So far this month, three journalists have been killed across Mexico, which is grappling with rising crime.

...Veracruz is the most dangerous state in Mexico for journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists said this month at least six reporters had been killed there for their work since 2010, while 10 more were killed in circumstances that have yet to be clarified.

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