Journalists across Mexico protest killings of 3 this year
ABC News
Demonstrations have been held in at least eight cities across Mexico to protest the killings of three journalists in the the last two weeks
MEXICO CITY -- Demonstrations were held Tuesday in at least eight cities across Mexico to protest the killings of three journalists in the the last two weeks.
In the border city of Tijuana, two journalists have been killed in the space of a week. On Jan. 17, crime photographer Margarito Martínez was gunned down outside his home. And on Jan. 23, reporter Lourdes Maldonado López was found shot to death inside her car.
Dozens of journalists and supporters marched down a central boulevard in Tijuana in the evening, holding up signs with slogans like “Stop the Killing of Journalists, Not One More Death!”
Early Tuesday, news photographers laid their cameras on the ground outside Mexico City’s National Palace. The spot was decorated with flowers, small signs saying “Press, don’t shoot!” and photos of Maldonado, Martínez, and José Luis Gamboa, who died in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz on Jan. 10.
