Murdered Mexican Journalist

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Another Mexican journalist was assassinated yesterday in that country, this one in front of his relatives.

According to Agencia Reforma, the communicator Ricardo Monlui Córdova -who was president of the Association of Graphic Journalists and Reporters of Córdoba and the AC Region and columnist for the Diario de Xalapa and the magazine Analisis Político- was going out with his family from a restaurant in the Municipality of Yanga, Veracruz, when he was coldly shot. In the attack, his wife was reportedly injured and was immediately transferred to a nearby hospital. His status is unknown.

By repudiating the murder of the 57-year-old communicator, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) revealed that, with him, 122 murders of journalists in Mexico since 2000 have been added - for which reason he asked the Veracruz Attorney General's Office for an investigation exhaustive to locate and punish those responsible for this crime.

According to that entity, of the 122 murders, 20 have been carried out in Veracruz. In its most recent report, the organization Reporters Without Borders described Veracruz as the most dangerous place in America to practice journalism.