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Journalist Killed in Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas. He wrote about electoral violence in Mexico

Sunday, January 14, 2018 9:49

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Posted by DD
Sources; NYT, Infolliteras

Saturday, January 13, in the middle of the afternoon the 77 year old journalist Carlos Dominguez Rodriguez was murdered while in his car while maneuvering on the streets in downtown Nuevo Laredo. His daughter was in the car with him but was not injured. He is the second journalist killed in the country so far in 2018.

State security spokesman Luis Alberto Rodriguez told The Associated Press. the body had stab wounds and there may have been gunshots.and said they were investigating to see if his death was related to his work.

Dominguez had worked for different print media outlets, including the Diario de Nuevo Laredo newspaper, but he was currently an independent journalist who wrote opinion columns for news websites, Rodriguez and other journalists said. The journalist had a political column and did not work for any media at this time, although he previously had a job at El Diario de Nuevo Laredo .

If it is confirmed that Dominguez was murdered for his work, he would be the first journalist slain for his profession in the new year after a deadly 2017 that saw at least 10 killed in what international press groups called a crisis for freedom of expression in Mexico.

Tamaulipas’ government released a statement saying it “will act firmly against any attack on freedom of expression and the labor of communicators.”

In his last column, published Friday, Carlos Dominguez spoke of the violent events during the electoral period. In that column he wrote;

“the violence or the elector season makes the ground in Mexican tremble. Ridiculous speeches are used to hide the failure of the federal government in matters of public safety.

“As if it were an insinuation to violate the electoral process in its infancy, the bloody events have intensified in quantity and brutality since the beginning of pre-campaign activities for the presidency of the Republic.

In a season when tranquility is supposed to reign for citizens to scrutinize the characters that are fighting for the Presidency of theMexican government, the assassinations of politicians have become more abundant than ever and impunity is at the height of extremely violent events.

”And as always, this generalized violence becomes prolific in the State of Mexico, Morelos, Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, Nayarit, Chihuahua, Queretaro, Zacatecas, Sonora, Baja California and Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Mexico City “.

“And as always, this generalized violence becomes prolific in the State of Mexico, Morelos, Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, Nayarit, Chihuahua, Queretaro, Zacatecas, Sonora, Baja California and Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Mexico City “.

(DD note; I is surprising that Dominguez did not include Tamaulipas on that list considering that since the year 2000 to date, there have been 14 journalist killed in Tamaullpas, the second most lethal to the press according to the organization Article 19.)

And he concluded: “Today as never before, Mexico is really a red center of violence in the American hemisphere, only surpassed by Venezuela, a country where a government of citizen submission is exercised that overcomes all the atrocities that have occurred in Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala and el Salvador”.

The governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, expressed his condolences to the journalist’s family through a message on his Twitter account. “My commitment to them and the journalistic community of Tamaulipas that this homicide will not go unpunished.”

Tamaulipas has been wracked by drug cartel violence and the state is one where organized crime has often been able to intimidate media outlets into silence through violence and threats.

Both the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have expressed concern about the impunity surrounding the killings of journalists in Mexico

As reported on Borderland Beat, in Guerrero state in southern Mexico,this past week several journalists reported being roughed up. Bernandino Hernandez, who has worked with the AP, said state police beat, kicked and dragged the journalists.

Earlier in January, a news editor was killed in Mexico City in a robbery apparently unrelated to his profession.

Source: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/01/journalist-killed-in-nuevo-laredo.html

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