Reporter Gunned Down Outside Home Becomes 11th Journalist Killed in Mexico This Year Central European News
go to original September 7, 2017

Reporter Juan Carlos Hernandez Rios becomes 11th journalist killed in Mexico this year (Democracy Now!)

A reporter gunned down outside his home has become the 11th journalist to be murdered in Mexico this year.

Juan Carlos Hernandez Rios was attacked by two armed men who were waiting for him at his home in the city of Guanajuato in the central Mexican state of the same name.

Paramedics managed to pick up the 29-year-old alive but he died later in hospital.

The reporter had recently published a story about peasants dispossessed of their land taking legal action against the local government body that took it.

His wife stated that on at least 10 occasions she had arrived home and on opening the garage door seen two hidden people flee.

Two other recent killings fanned fears of corruption in Mexico’s local governments.

... Non-governmental organisation Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres) says on its website that Mexico is “the Western Hemisphere’s deadliest country for the media”.

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