Mexican journalist killed; 9th media worker slain this year
Journalist Luis Enrique Ramirez Ramos was found wrapped in plastic on a dirt road in northern Sinaloa state.
6 May 2022
Luis Enrique Ramirez Ramos has become the ninth journalist killed in Mexico in 2022 in what has proven to be a particularly deadly year for media workers in the country.
Ramirez Ramos’s body was found on a dirt road wrapped in plastic near a junkyard in the capital of Sinaloa state on Thursday. Prosecutors said he died from multiple blows to the head.
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A motive for the killing was not immediately known, but Sinaloa state is the stronghold of notorious narcotics kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel.
Reporters are often targeted in provincial Mexico for highlighting drug cartels and their connections to local politicians and police.
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