Another journalist killed in Mexico
Another journalist has been killed in Mexico, amid a wave of violence that has targeted media workers in the Latin American country.
Carlos Dominguez was murdered Saturday afternoon in the city of Nuevo Laredo, in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, state officials said in a statement.
The attorney general’s office launched an investigation to determine the circumstances of the killing, including whether it was related to Dominguez’s work as a journalist, the statement said.
Dominguez, who was an independent journalist and wrote a political column, had criticized the reported growing political violence triggered by the upcoming presidential election in July.
Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, the governor of Tamaulipas, condemned the act of violence against the journalist in a post on Twitter.
“My condolences to the family of the journalist Carlos Dominguez Rodriguez,” he wrote. “My commitment to them and the journalistic community of Tamaulipas is that this murder will not go unpunished.”
Reporters without Borders has rated Mexico as the most dangerous country for journalists in the Western Hemisphere.
According to the International Federation of Journalists (IJF), 13 journalists were killed in Mexico in 2017, the highest among the countries studied by the IJF.
The United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have expressed concern about the impunity surrounding the killing of journalists in Mexico.
On January 7, in Guerrero State in southern Mexico, several journalists reported being roughed up by police. Bernandino Hernandez, a journalist who has worked with the Associated Press, said state police beat, kicked and dragged the journalists.
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