“I fear for my life”: the journalist Lourdes Maldonado asked AMLO for help in 2019 and this Sunday they killed her

Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado feared for her life and in 2019 asked the president for help Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a morning conference. But this Sunday, two years later, she was killed in an attack in Tijuana.

It was in the morning of March 26, 2019, when in National Palace asked to speak and introduced himself as a journalist from the Seventh Day Weekly and, after questioning the president about trade and customs, he pointed out that he had a situation related to a labor demand.

“I come to ask you for support, help and labor justice because I even fear for my life”, he expressed. “I come to ask for that support and that justice and I do it because it is a strong character in politics who does not intend to pay me much less.”

“I do it because it is about your senator with a license, your super coordinator of delegations and your candidate, your next candidate for the governorship of Baja California, Mr. Jaime BonillaThat’s why I’m here, asking for your support.”

At that time, the president asked the spokesman Jesus Ramirez to take up the case and pointed out that action should be taken “within the framework of the Law.”

This Sunday, according to the first reports, Lourdes Maldonado She had arrived in her car at her home, in the Santa Fe subdivision. The officers who were guarding her left. That moment was used by the aggressor to shoot him in the temple. His body was left inside the vehicle.

The journalist had a labor dispute

Maldonado had a labor dispute for nine years with the psn company for unfair dismissal and outstanding payroll debts.

Last Wednesday, January 19, the company was notified of a commercial embargo in favor of the journalist, who was designated as intervening depositary.

That day, the lawyer Eduardo Edmar Perez Castro He explained that with said embargo, a payment agreement would be initiated with the company in favor of his client.

The murder of Lourdes Maldonado is the second of a journalist in Tijuana in less than a week and the third nationally, so far this year.

The journalist was inside the Mechanism for the Protection of Journalists and she had an escort of municipal police, who accompanied her on a fixed schedule. Even so, Maldonado She was murdered this Sunday afternoon.

Last Monday, the photojournalist margarito martinez, was assassinated in front of his house, also in the city of Tijuana.

On January 10, Luis Gamboa was assassinated in the state of Veracruz.

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