{"id":4677,"date":"2018-09-22T04:48:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T11:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=4677"},"modified":"2018-09-22T05:10:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T12:10:50","slug":"how-the-alternative-for-germany-has-transformed-the-country-der-spiegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=4677","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJournalist murdered in Mexico, ninth of 2018\u201d, Agence France Presse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paris, 22 Sep 2018<\/p>\n

Gunmen on Friday killed a Mexican journalist who had received threats after reporting on corruption in the southern state of Chiapas, his newspaper said, in what was at least the ninth murder of a reporter in the country this year.<\/p>\n

Mario Gomez, a reporter with El Heraldo de Chiapas, is the latest victim in a wave of violence against the press in Mexico, the second-deadliest country in the world for journalists after war-torn Syria, according to the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cHe had recently filed a complaint because he was receiving threats,\u201d a colleague at the paper told AFP on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

Gomez, 35, had also been threatened in 2016 for publishing articles on corruption by two state officials, according to the media rights group Article 19.<\/p>\n

El Heraldo said Gomez, a general news correspondent in the town of Yajalon, was leaving his house to go to work when two unidentified men arrived and \u201cmurdered him in cold blood\u201d with a series of shots to the abdomen at point-blank range.<\/p>\n

Gomez was taken to the hospital but died of his wounds, said the paper, where he had worked for the past eight years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call for an exhaustive investigation to find those responsible for this crime,\u201d his colleagues wrote in an editorial published on the newspaper\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

The state prosecutor\u2019s office said in a statement it would \u201cfollow all lines of investigation to shed light on this reprehensible crime and bring those responsible to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Dangerous place to work \u2013<\/p>\n

Racked by violent crime linked to its powerful drug cartels, Mexico registered a record number of murders last year: 28,702.<\/p>\n

That included at least 11 murdered journalists.<\/p>\n

Asking questions about the multibillion-dollar narcotics trade, government corruption or the links between the two can be a deadly job in Mexico.<\/p>\n

Including Gomez, at least nine journalists have been murdered so far this year in the country in possible retaliation for their work.<\/p>\n

More than 100 have been murdered in Mexico since 2000.<\/p>\n

The vast majority of the cases have gone unpunished \u2014 as do more than 90 percent of violent crimes in Mexico.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear whether Gomez was enrolled in the Mexican government\u2019s protection program for journalists and human rights activists, launched in 2012 in a bid to stop such crimes.<\/p>\n

The program provides bodyguards, panic buttons and other protective measures to people at risk. But it suffers from under-funding and has failed to stop several high-profile murders.<\/p>\n

It risks running out of funding in January, if the government does not bridge a budget gap.<\/p>\n

Gomez\u2019s murder \u201csaddens and burdens us, just as we\u2019re facing the lack of resources for the government\u2019s protection program for at-risk journalists,\u201d said Balbina Flores, Mexico representative for Reporters Without Borders.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe demand a full investigation and a guarantee of security for his family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Agence France Presse<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

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Paris, 22 Sep 2018 Gunmen on Friday killed a Mexican journalist who had received threats after reporting on corruption in the southern state of Chiapas, his newspaper said, in what was at least the ninth murder of a reporter in the country this year. Mario Gomez, a reporter with El Heraldo de Chiapas, is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}