'My life's at risk': Mexican journalists fear death every day
By AFP
Published March 16, 2022
Each time Maria Martinez leaves home, she fears it will be the last. Only her bodyguards prevent her from joining the eight journalists murdered already this year in Mexico, she believes.
“I know that my life’s at risk every day and it’s terrible to live with the threat,” the 55-year-old reporter said in her house in the central city of Aguascalientes, protected by locks and security cameras.
Two and a half months into 2022, the number of homicides of media workers in Mexico has already surpassed the toll for the whole of last year.
The latest victim was Armando Linares, the director of a news outlet in the violence-plagued western state of Michoacan who was murdered on Tuesday, prosecutors said.
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