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Another journalist is shot dead in Mexico
By Kate Linthicum (Los Angeles Times, 16 April 2017)
MEXICO CITY — 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.
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Mexico is the world’s third-most dangerous country for journalists, after Syria and Afghanistan, according to Reporters Without Borders. Since 2000, 124 journalists have been killed, according to Mexico’s human rights commission.
I thought I’d do a little research, mainly just for myself, online, only to pick up some numbers. I worked for a while in Mexico as a journalist and left in the mid-1990s. It was well known then that journalists in Mexico had a dangerous job (lunatic that I was—and a mother with a young child—I can’t, looking back, figure out why I was thinking that was a good idea?). Not sorry now. We all survived and I learned a lot. We each do what we feel we have to do at any given moment in our life. My research today was short-lived. Google produced what I needed with its first hit.
List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico - Wikipedia
– it tracks journalists killed in Mexico doing their jobs from 1860 to the present: 405 listed through today.
heartofoshun:
Another journalist is shot dead in Mexico
By Kate Linthicum (Los Angeles Times, 16 April 2017)
MEXICO CITY — 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.
* * *
Mexico is the world’s third-most dangerous country for journalists, after Syria and Afghanistan, according to Reporters Without Borders. Since 2000, 124 journalists have been killed, according to Mexico’s human rights commission.
I thought I’d do a little research, mainly just for myself, online, only to pick up some numbers. I worked for a while in Mexico as a journalist and left in the mid-1990s. It was well known then that journalists in Mexico had a dangerous job (lunatic that I was—and a mother with a young child—I can’t, looking back, figure out why I was thinking that was a good idea?). Not sorry now. We all survived and I learned a lot. We each do what we feel we have to do at any given moment in our life. My research today was short-lived. Google produced what I needed with its first hit.
List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico - Wikipedia
– it tracks journalists killed in Mexico doing their jobs from 1860 to the present: 405 listed through today.
