2 journalists killed in Mexico, 3 dead so far this year
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2 journalists killed in Mexico, 3 dead so far this year


Prosecutors in southern Mexico said reporter Gustavo Sánchez Cabrera was shot to death, and another journalist was killed just west of Mexico City, bring to three the number killed so far this year in the country. Two other reporters have disappeared. The prosecutors office in the southern state of Oaxaca said Sánchez Cabrera was riding a motorcycle with another person on a rural road when gunmen opened fire on them. There was no immediate information on the condition of the other person. The attack occurred in Oaxacas isthmus region. Local media and press groups said Sánchez Cabrera had complained of receiving threats and attacks in recent months. Reporters Without Borders demanded a thorough investigation into the threats and attacks that he had reported earlier related to his work as a journalist. Also Thursday, the prosecutors office in Mexico State, which borders Mexico City, said Enrique Garcia was killed Wednesday night in the township of Metepec, west of the capital.

Garcia worked as a journalist, but on the night he was killed it appeared he was working as a driver for a ride-hailing app.

The office said he may have been killed in a robbery.

At least two journalists have disappeared this year in the violence-wracked northern border state of Sonora, and in May, online journalist Benjamín Morales Hernández was abducted and killed in Sonora.

Morales Hernández ran an community news site called Noticias Xonoidag. His family reported he had been abducted and his bullet-ridden body was later found on a highway.

Press groups say nine journalists were killed in Mexico in 2020, the highest total of any country not at war.


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