2 journalists killed in Mexico — the 10th and 11th of the year
LA TimesJust as Mexican journalists prepared to protest the killing of a journalist last week, word came Monday that two more were shot to death in the gulf coast state of Veracruz, raising to 11 the number of such killings in the country this year. The Veracruz state prosecutor’s office said via Twitter that it was investigating the killings of Yessenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera, the director and a reporter, respectively, of the online news site El Veraz in Cosoleacaque. “I feel hurt each time they take the life of so many colleagues.” “There’s so much anger, indignation, powerlessness knowing that we come here to protest the murder of Luis Enrique Ramírez a few days ago in Culiacán, Sinaloa, and the news of the killing of two women journalists in Veracruz reaches us here,” Triana said. Though President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised a “zero impunity” program to investigate such slayings, journalists’ murders, like most homicides in Mexico, are never resolved by authorities. called on the president to “immediately suspend the aggressions and insults, because such attacks from the top of power encourage violence against the press.” In March, the European Union approved a resolution that “calls on the authorities, and in particular the highest ones, to refrain from issuing any communication which could stigmatize human rights defenders, journalists and media workers, exacerbate the atmosphere against them or distort their lines of investigation.”