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Mexican reporter Juan Carlos Muñiz murdered in Zacatecas

2022-03-05T15:50:20.060Z


This is the seventh communicator killed in the country so far this year. Civil organizations have demanded that the authorities investigate whether his death was related to his journalistic work.


Reporter Juan Carlos Muñiz, from the Mining Witness media outlet, was shot to death this Friday in the municipality of Fresnillo, in the Mexican state of Zacatecas.

"I condemn the act in which Juan Carlos Muñoz, a worker at the Mining Witness news portal, was deprived of his life this afternoon in Fresnillo, and we express our solidarity with his family, friends, and colleagues," the governor of Zacatecas tweeted. , David Monreal Avila.

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Muñiz, who also worked as a taxi driver,

is the seventh journalist to be killed in Mexico so far in 2022

.

For now, the Zacatecas authorities continue to investigate whether his murder was related to his work as a communicator.

Colonia Los Olivos, in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, where reporter Juan Carlos Muñiz was murdered on March 4, 2022. Millennium

Mining Witness first reported the news and said that for "some years" Muñiz collaborated there with "journalistic reports."

His readers knew him by the pseudonym Rigoberto.

The Mining Witness Facebook account condemned the murder and demanded an effective investigation.

According to local media, Juan Carlos Muñiz, carried out some collaborations with other media outlets in the State of Zacatecas.

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Civil organizations such as Reporters Without Borders and Article 19 condemned the murder and

urged the authorities to clarify whether the case is linked to Muñiz's journalistic work.

“Article 19 regrets and condemns the murder of journalist Juan Carlos Muñiz, from the Mining Witness media outlet, in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, which is already being documented.

We demand that the Zacatecas Prosecutor's Office carry out an exhaustive investigation, taking its journalistic work as its main line, ”Article 19 Mexico wrote on his Twitter account.

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The communicator's murder occurs at a time when journalists and organizations defending their rights in Mexico are demanding that the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador,

take measures to guarantee their safety.

The sixth journalist is murdered in Mexico so far this year

Feb. 25, 202200:24

In January, José Luis Gamboa was murdered in Veracruz;

in Tijuana, Baja California, reporters Margarito Martínez and Lourdes Maldonado were murdered;

in Michoacán, they assassinated Roberto Toledo;

in Oaxaca to Héber López Vásquez and in Sonora to Jorge Camero.

From the year 2000 to date, the

Article 19 organization has documented 150 murders of journalists in Mexico

, possibly related to their professional work.

Of the total, 138 were men and 12 women.

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Of these, 47 were registered during the previous term of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) and at least 30 have been assassinated so far during the López Obrador government (2018-to date), according to the news agency EFE.

Source: telemundo

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