MEXICO CITY (AP) — A journalist has been killed the northern Mexico border metropolis of Tijuana — the second within the metropolis in every week and the third in Mexico this month.
Mexico President Andrés Manuel Obrador known as Monday for a full investigation and cautioned towards leaping to conclusions in regards to the motive for the homicide of Lourdes Maldonado López, a Tijuana journalist who had as soon as come to him for assist.
Maldonado was discovered shot to dying inside a automotive on Sunday, in response to an announcement from the Baja California state prosecutor’s workplace. Authorities had acquired a 911 name round 7 p.m. and located Maldonado lifeless on arrival.
In 2019, Maldonado got here to López Obrador’s each day morning information convention and requested for his assist “as a result of I worry for my life.“
Maldonado had been locked in a years-long labor dispute with Jaime Bonilla, who was elected governor of Baja California later that 12 months as a candidate from López Obrador’s Morena get together. He left workplace late final 12 months.
Maldonado had just lately introduced that she received her dispute with a media firm Bonilla owned after 9 years of litigation.
The press group Article 19 stated through Twitter that Maldonado had lined corruption and politics in Tijuana and confronted aggression beforehand due to her work. She was enrolled within the state’s safety system for journalists who've been threatened, however the group didn't element the safety measures.
On Monday, López Obrador stated an investigation was wanted to know “if there's a tie with the labor criticism and see who's accountable.”
“You'll be able to’t routinely tie a labor lawsuit to against the law. It’s not accountable to hurry to judgement, you must wait,” the president stated. He added that after she got here to his information convention in 2019, he helped her, however he didn't specify how.
Maldonado had collaborated with many shops, however just lately was doing a web, radio and tv present, “Brebaje,” targeted on native information.
One other Tijuana journalist, photographer Margarito Martínez, was gunned down exterior his house on Jan. 17. He was well-known for masking the crime scene within the violence-plagued metropolis. He labored for the native information outlet Cadena Noticias, in addition to for different nationwide and worldwide media retailers.
There was no indication the murders are related. Tijuana has been torn by drug violence as rival cartels battle for management of profitable border smuggling factors and the Tijuana street-level drug commerce.
Mexico is the Western Hemisphere’s most violent nation for journalists, in response to the Committee to Defend Journalists.