Mexico City: A news photographer was killed in the Mexican border city in Tijuana on Monday, the same press group said a reporter was killed in the state of the Gulf Coast of Veracruz last week.
Two murders marked gloomy starting 2022 in Mexico, which was considered one of the most dangerous places for journalists outside the active war zone.
Margarito Martinez’s photographer is famous for covering the scene of crime in the violence – hit Tijuana.
He worked for local news outlets Cadena Noticias, as well as for other national and international media outlets.
Reporter Cadena Noticias Antonio Maya said Martinez was attacked when he left his house.
“He left his house when they fired a shot at him,” Maya said.
Also Monday, the press group said a Mexican journalist who criticized local authorities in the Veracruz state died, a few days after he was found seriously injured.
Jose Luis Gamboa is the Director of the Infooregio Online News Site, in the state of Gulf Coast Veracruz.
The press group reporter without the limit wrote that “Gamboa has denounced and strongly criticized the relationship between local authorities and organized crime.” He reportedly suffered a stab wound in what might be a robbery.
He died in a hospital in the country’s capital on January 10, but his relatives were not told until January 14.
Martinez and Gamboa are the first two first-killed journalists this year, but 48 journalists have been killed in Mexico since December 2018.
Mexico is one of the most dangerous places for journalists outside the active war zone.
In December, a senior senior human rights official said that 90% of crimes against activists and journalists were not punished in Mexico.
Alejandro Encinas, Assistant Secretary of the Mexican Interior in charge of human rights, said that in cases where the culprit had been identified, almost half was a local official.
Local officials in Mexico are often angry by corruption charges against them, but in some cases they are also in the league with criminal or business interests.
Encinas said new laws were needed to protect activists and journalists.