Jean Guerrero: If killings of Mexico's journalists continue, democracy will die with them
Democracy in Mexico depends on the work of Mexican journalists, and they're being murdered with impunity. In the first month of this year alone, four were killed. Just this Monday, 55-year-old lawyer and journalist Roberto Toledo was gunned down in the western state of Michoacán. He had reported on local government corruption. In the border city of Tijuana, two journalists were fatally shot: ...
Democracy in Mexico depends on the work of Mexican journalists, and they're being murdered with impunity.
In the first month of this year alone, four were killed. Just this Monday, 55-year-old lawyer and journalist Roberto Toledo was gunned down in the western state of Michoacán. He had reported on local government corruption.
In the border city of Tijuana, two journalists were fatally shot: 49-year-old crime photojournalist Margarito Martínez and 66-year-old radio and TV host Lourdes Maldonado. Both were role models for the region's next generation of reporters.
Maldonado particularly inspired Mexican women whose mothers and grandmothers embraced a view husband nor children and lived unabashedly for her career and community.
