Mexican police in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico (archive picture) Europa Press
The yr 2022 was deadly for journalism in Mexico with the homicide of 19 journalists
The journalist Marco Aurelio Ramírez Hernández has died this Tuesday after armed males shot him when he was in his car within the municipality of Tehuacán, within the Mexican state of Puebla. Ramírez, who was additionally director basic of the Government of Tehuacán, misplaced management of the car after being attacked, for which he crashed right into a tree. Police officers and emergency providers arrived on the scene of the occasion, confirming the demise of Ramírez, as reported by ‘El Sol de Puebla’.
The Puebla Prosecutor’s Office has indicated that “it has grow to be conscious of the actual fact through which Marco Aurelio R. was disadvantaged of life in Tehuacán and has begun the investigation of it, which can be carried out promptly and successfully.” According to data from the native media, Marco Aurelio Ramírez brought about the arrest of quite a few members of the “Las Bigotonas” gang whereas he labored as a municipal official.
The Puebla State Attorney General’s Office will examine whether or not the journalist’s homicide is expounded to his exercise as a municipal official. He presently collaborated every day as a columnist for a radio station, whereas he has been acknowledged for his skilled profession, through which he labored for greater than 30 years in numerous media, however primarily as an occasion journalist. Since the yr 2000, almost 150 journalists have been murdered and 28 have disappeared in Mexico, in accordance with the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which ranks this nation among the many most harmful on the earth and ranked 128 out of 180 on its index. of press freedom. With this homicide, there are already 3 journalists who’ve died in Mexico after the report variety of murders in 2022. Especially bloody was the homicide of journalist Maria Guadalupe Lourdes Maldonado López who was murdered days after asking for assist from Mexican President López-Obrador with out his He did nothing to guard her.
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