Mexican journalist killed six weeks after colleague's murder

[Judi Lynn]

FABIOLA SANCHEZ
ZITACUARO, MEXICO
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED 5 HOURS AGO
UPDATED 1 HOUR AGO

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 Mr. Linares too has been gunned down – the eighth journalist killed in Mexico this year.

Mr. Linares continued to publish the Monitor Michoacan online news site after the death of camera operator Roberto Toledo, writing stories about the monarch butterflies that winter in the mountains around Zitacuaro, butterfly-related festivities and other hyper-local and state news – occasionally including criticism of local officials.

But the threat for journalists had persisted, something Mr. Linares seemed to expect.

On Jan. 31, the day Mr. Toledo was killed, Mr. Linares looked straight at the camera and said, “There are names. We know where all of this comes from.”

More:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-mexican-journalist-killed-six-weeks-after-colleagues-murder/



Rest in Peace, Armando Linares

[Judi Lynn]

1. 8th journalist murdered in Mexico in 2022

By Kendal Blust
Published: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - 3:27pm
Updated: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 - 3:28pm



Monitor Michoacan via Twitter

Armando Linares, director of the news site Michoacan Monitor, was shot and killed outside his home on March 15, 2022.
Armando Linares was shot down outside his home Tuesday in the state of Michoacán.

Linares’ murder is the at least the eighth this year, surpassing in less than three months the seven reporters killed in Mexico in all of 2021, when Reporters Without Borders called it the deadliest country in the world for journalists.

Linares was the director of the Michoacán Monitor. Earlier this year, he posted a video to social media after his colleague Roberto Toledo was also gunned down.

"We're not armed. We don't carry weapons. Our only defense is a pen, a pencil, a notepad," Linares said at the time.

More:
https://fronterasdesk.org/content/1764467/8th-journalist-murdered-mexico-2022

[Judi Lynn]

2. Another journalist shot dead in Mexico, eighth so far this year

Updated: 2022-03-17 07:38:42 KST

Another journalist has been shot dead in western Mexico, marking the 8th killed in 2022, raising fears about the safety of journalists in the country.

Armando Linares, the director of Monitor Michoacan was shot dead, and came just six weeks after his colleague was killed.

Before his death, Linares told other media outlets that armed groups who pass themselves off as a criminal gang might be behind the killings.

The Michoacan state has long been marred by turf wars between powerful gangs battling for control of the drug market.

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