11th Journalist Killed in Mexico, Setting Path for Record-Breaking Year Deutsche Welle
go to original October 8, 2017

In Mexico, caricaturists risk their lives (Deutsche Welle English)

Rights groups have called on Mexican authorities to combat impunity, saying violence will continue "until that changes." With more than 100 journalists killed since 2000, Mexico is set to break another tragic record.

Authorities in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi said the bullet-riddled body of 23-year-old photojournalist Edgar Daniel Esqueda was discovered on Friday near the state capital's airport, bound and showing signs of torture.

Witnesses told the Mexican press freedom advocacy group Articulo 19 that the assailants told Esqueda they were police officers after he asked for their identity.

The San Luis Potosi police department denied any involvement via Twitter, saying "there has not been any police action against a reporter in the (state) capital."



... Since 2000, 111 journalists have been killed in Mexico, with more than 90 percent of the cases unsolved. More than 180,000 people have been killed and over 30,000 others disappeared since the government declared war against the country's powerful drug cartels 11 years ago.

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Related: In Mexico, Impunity Piles Up Along with Journalists' Bodies (Agence France-Presse)

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