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Another journalist is gunned down in Mexico the fourth in just six weeks
Kate Linthicum
APRIL 15, 2017 4:45 PM
Another journalist has been killed in Mexico — the fourth in just six weeks.
Authorities said reporter Maximino Rodriguez Palacios was shot dead outside of a shopping center Friday in La Paz, a coastal city in the state of Baja California Sur.
Rodriguez, 72, wrote about politics and crime for a news organization called the Pericu Collective. He had previously worked as a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office.
Friday’s shooting is the latest in a string of violent attacks on journalists in Mexico that has claimed four lives since March 2 and has left several others wounded. The attacks have drawn condemnation from human rights advocates, with the Committee to Protect Journalists calling the situation in Mexico a “crisis” of freedom of expression.
More:
http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-journalist-murder-20170415-story.html
LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141754405
