Journalist killed in Mexico, eighth so far this year
Also: Mexican journalist killed 6 weeks after colleague’s murder (Associated Press)
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Source: Associated Press
Journalist killed in Mexico, eighth so far this year
By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ
March 16, 2022
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Another journalist was shot to death in Mexico on Tuesday, the eighth murdered so far this year in an unprecedented spate of killings that has made Mexico the most dangerous place in the world for the press.
Reporters and photographers have been murdered this year in Mexico at the rate of almost one a week, despite claims from the government that the situation is under control.
Prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan said reporter Armando Linares was shot to death at a home in the town of Zitacuaro. His killing came six weeks after the slaying of a colleague, Roberto Toledo, from the same outlet Monitor Michoacan. It was Linares who announced Toledo’s death Jan. 31 in a video posted to social media.
Zitacuaro is one of the closest towns to the monarch butterfly wintering grounds in the mountains west of Mexico City.
The area has been plagued by illegal logging and drug gangs, local governance disputes and deforestation linked to expanding avocado production. ...
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A friend places a rose on the open-faced casket that contains the remains of slain journalist Armando Linares in Zitacuaro, in the state of Michoacan, Mexico, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. Linares was shot to death at a home in the town of Zitacuaro on Tuesday, the eighth Mexican journalist murdered so far this year. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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Source: Associated Press
Mexican journalist killed 6 weeks after colleague’s murder
By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ
March 16, 2022
ZITACUARO, Mexico (AP) — Six weeks ago, journalist Armando Linares choked up in a video announcing the killing of a colleague and promised to continue doing journalism that exposed the corrupt. Now Linares too has been gunned down — the eighth journalist killed in Mexico this year.
On Wednesday, his wife, children, siblings and friends prepared to see him off inside a small funeral parlor.
After initially halting his reporting for a few weeks and closing the Monitor Michoacan office following the killing of camera operator Roberto Toledo, Linares returned to reporting and resumed publishing the online news site.
He wrote stories about the monarch butterflies that winter in the mountains around Zitacuaro, butterfly-related festivities and other hyper-local and state news — but gone was the criticism of local officials he was known for before Toledo’s killing.
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