Journalist Amber Lopez Vazquez of the Noticias Web news site was killed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Thursday, a prosecutor said, adding that two alleged perpetrators had been arrested.
He is the fifth journalist to be killed in the country this year, according to a report by Agence France-Presse based on the data of the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
According to state prosecutor Arturo Calvo, the reporter was killed inside his car in Oaxaca.
“We have already made two arrests, we have also confiscated the weapons with which the crime was committed,” the prosecutor said.
“Although we have the two perpetrators in our hands,” the investigation continues and the authorities do not rule out any scenario in order to reach the “moral perpetrators” of the murder, added Mr. Kalvo.
Mexico is considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world – the most dangerous if war zones are excluded – for journalists who are at risk of retaliation for drug cartels rampant in many of its 32 states. their.
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