Journalist Heber López Vásquez murdered in Oaxaca, the fifth crime against the press in Mexico in 2022

The journalist Heber López Vásquez, director of the digital media RCP Noticias.RCP

Journalism in Mexico is in mourning again.

This Thursday, the journalist Heber López Vásquez, a reporter in the port of Salina Cruz, on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the State of Oaxaca, was shot dead inside his recording studio.

López Vásquez was director of the local page RCP Noticias in Oaxaca and his death occurred after an attack on another journalist in the entity, Santiago Martínez, director of Pluma Digital Noticias, suffered an armed attack.

According to the Oaxaca Attorney General's Office, so far there are two people detained for this attack.

So far this year, five journalists have been killed in the country.

Roberto Toledo, who was assassinated on January 31 in Michoacán;

in addition to Lourdes Maldonado, shot to death on January 23 in Tijuana;

photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel, shot on January 17 in Tijuana;

and José Luis Gamboa, who was murdered on January 10 in the State of Veracruz.

The weariness of information professionals has resulted in numerous protests in 23 states at the beginning of the year.

Journalists in the country live under a spiral of violence that, when it does not end their lives, condemns them to silence.

Many reporters have left the office or have moved to other places to protect themselves, while more than 90% of the cases go unpunished.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has been warning for more than a year that Mexico is the deadliest country in the world to practice journalism.

Since the organization in defense of their rights, Article 19, collects data, in the year 2000, 149 reporters have been murdered so far.

Of these, 29, during the three years of the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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