Harassment of Mexico Journalists Continues Even After Institution of New Protective Laws Nina Lakhani - Al Jazeera
go to original August 2, 2013

Reporters have protested impunity and corruption which allow gangsters to kill the messengers (EPA)

MEXICO CITY - Amid the recent fanfare surrounding big arrests in Mexico's drug war, those journalists still daring to shed light on the cartels and corrupt state officials keep on dying, and the killers, they just keep on getting away with it.

Alberto Lopez Bello was recently found shot dead in Trinidad de Viguera, a small town near the southern city of Oaxaca. The 28-year-old had worked the crime beat on the state-wide daily newspaper El Imparcial for the past six years. His beat up body was found alongside that of a young policeman, hours after the pair were seen drinking in a downtown bar. The killings took place as thousands of tourists descended on Oaxaca for the famed Guelaguetza cultural festival.

Lopez had written a series of stories about drug dealing in the city, where cartel-related violence is relatively low. In May, he and a colleague were arrested by local police after photographing a sign left on a bridge by a criminal group. He also reported on crime, in which police were sometimes implicated, for the local radio programme "Foro Político".

He is the third journalist to be killed in Mexico this year, and the 88th in the past decade, according to Reporters without Borders.

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