A journalist is murdered in western Mexico, the eighth in 2022

The journalist Armando Linares, director of the news portal Monitor Michoacanwas assassinated this Tuesday in the west of Mexicowith which he became the eighth communicator killed in the country so far in 2022.

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The Michoacán state prosecutor’s office confirmed in a statement the murder “of journalist Armando Linares López, which occurred this afternoon at a private home.” He added that the communicator had gunshot wounds.

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Linares’ murder occurred just a month and a half after Roberto Toledo, a collaborator with the same media outlet, was murdered.

After the crime in Toledo, on January 31, Linares denounced threats against him and his work team for having exposed acts of corruption.

“We are not armed, we do not bring weapons. Our only defense is a pen, a pencil,” Linares said in a video released after Toledo’s death.

The local prosecutor’s office also said that it is investigating the murder in accordance with the protocol for crimes committed against freedom of expression.

Linares is the eighth journalist murdered so far this year in Mexico, one of the most dangerous countries for the press, according to reports from the organizations Reporters Without Borders and Article 19.

Before him, Juan Carlos Muñiz, Heber López, Lourdes Maldonado, Margarito Martínez, Roberto Toledo, José Luis Gamboa and Jorge Luis Camero were killed, the latter shot on February 24, two weeks after leaving his position in the Empalme mayor’s office. (state of Sonora, north).

Some 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, according to Reporters Without Borders.

At the beginning of March, the European Parliament, the highest representative body of the European Union, approved a resolution asking the Mexican authorities “to guarantee the protection and creation of a safe environment for journalists and human rights defenders.”

In response, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador accused the European Parliament of supporting “a coup strategy” by his opponents.

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Source: Elcomercio

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