The president has been accused of failing to address the wave of violence and has been incessant with his attacks on reporters
Highlights
- Mexico is the deadliest country for media professionals outside a warzone.
- Attacks on the press have surged 85% in three years since Andrés Manuel López Obrador took power.
- Seven journalists were killed in the whole of last year, compared to 11 in the first five months of 2022.
- Tijuana, which sits on the US border near San Diego, has suffered most this year, with two prominent journalists murdered outside their homes there since January: the photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel and the television reporter Lourdes Maldonado.
- The attorney general’s office in Veracruz state, where Cosoleacaque is located, insisted Monday’�s murders would not go unpunished.