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One other journalist has been killed in Mexico, including to a rising record of reporters killed amid a deepening drug battle within the nation
MEXICO CITY — One other journalist was killed in Mexico on Saturday, including to a rising record of reporters who’ve misplaced their lives amid a deepening drug battle within the nation, authorities and a press freedom group stated.
Nelson Matus was shot useless on the outskirts of Acapulco in southwestern Mexico, officers and Article 19 confirmed. Matus had been director of a neighborhood information group, Lo Actual de Guerrero, which reported on the rising violence within the Mexican state of Guerrero.
In keeping with Article 19, he had already survived an assassination try in 2019. Native authorities stated they have been investigating the homicide.
Matus’s dying comes only a week after the ugly homicide of one other journalist in western Mexico, one thing the Committee to Defend Journalists says “underscores the disaster of lethal violence and impunity that continues to plague the Mexican press.”
The dying illustrates a worrying enhance in reporter killings in Mexico and the toll that the intensification of the nation’s drug battle has taken on native newsrooms, which regularly report extra microscopically on the violence. The Matus newsroom isn’t any exception.
For years, the resort city of Acapulco was principally recognized for its seashore resorts, however it has more and more turn out to be a middle for narco violence. On the identical day Matus was killed, the information group ran a narrative about authorities discovering a physique in a bag close to a vacationer seashore within the metropolis.
Up to now 5 years alone, CPJ has documented the homicide of at the least 52 journalists in Mexico. Final yr, Mexico was one of many deadliest locations on this planet for journalists, after Ukraine.
On Saturday, Matus’s information group mourned his dying on social media, saying: “We prolong our condolences to his household and pray collectively for his everlasting relaxation.”
