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Serious in Mexico/ The journalist of the black chronicle is executed

2024-08-06 11:45:55Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Serious in Mexico/ The journalist of the black chronicle is executed

A Mexican journalist reporting on violent crimes has been killed while under police protection. Unknown gunmen shot Alejandro Martínez as he was riding in a car with two security guards in the central state of Guanajuato.

Martínez, who was known as the "Lone Ranger Son," died in hospital from gunshot wounds he sustained in the attack.

Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, with over 150 media workers killed since 1994, according to the campaign group Reporters Without Borders.

Martínez, who was in his 50s, ran a popular Facebook news outlet that has more than 340,000 followers.

He had been under police protection after surviving a similar attack on his life in 2022.

Local authorities said the attackers opened fire from a pickup truck on the car carrying the journalist and his bodyguards.

Police sources told the AFP news agency that bodyguards returned fire but were unable to save the journalist, who was hit by a bullet in the head.

A woman in another car was also hit and injured by a bullet, sources said. In an interview three years ago, Mr. Martínez said he felt incredible pain and sadness, seeing the damage caused to the region by the increased level of violence.

Balbina Flores from Reporters Without Borders in Mexico told AFP that "he was a journalist who was in danger".

He was assigned bodyguards under a federal program for journalists who receive death threats, a government official said.

His killing is the latest in a string of deadly attacks on journalists.

Earlier this month, Federico Hans, a journalist in the town of Caborca ​​in the northern state of Sonora, was shot and wounded as he got into his car outside his home.

And on June 29, Victor Culebro was found dead along a highway in the southern state of Chiapas./BBC


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