Fred Roman, journalist who ran and online Sweetened news programto me death Monday in Southern Mexico, making it the fifteenth media A worker killed this so far year nationally.
Prosecution in Southern State of Guerrero said on Monday that Roman was shot dead down in The state capital is Chilpancingo.
roman program”the truth of Guerrero, focus tight on state level politics. he is also column books.
Guerrero is a country where drug gangs, armed guards and other groups regularly clash.
2022 was one of The deadliest ever for journalists in Mexico, which is now considered the most dangerous country for correspondents outside war zone.
Prosecutors did not immediately provide any further details on The killing of roman, who Sweetened media He said that he had earlier published a newspaper with the same name and got injured inside vehicle.
The killing Come just one A week later was freelance journalist Juan Arjun Lopez found dead in Northern Border State of Sonora. Prosecutors said he died from a blow to head. for him body I was found in San Luis Rio Colorado, across the border from Yuma, Arizona.
who – which area It was hit drug gang violence in Last few years. In March, researchers volunteered found 11 bodies in Secret burial pits in a stretch of Desert near a landfill in Saint Louis.
At first of August, was a journalist among the four people Killed in a beer shop in Central State of Mexico of Guanajuato.
The authorities said it was unknown whether that attack He was related to the journalist workfor him role as an actor of Local businesses in planning of An upcoming exhibition or something else.
while organizing crime Often involved in journalists killed, small City officials or politicians with political or criminal The motives are often suspicious, too. Journalists running small news ports in Mexican interior easy targets.
Jean Albert Hutson, representative of Mexico for Committee to Protect Journalists, written after Arjun Lopez’s book killing That “although there have been some arrests made in previous cases of This is a journalist murder yearcontinuous climate of Impunity continues to fuel these attacks.”
