The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
January 16, 2018

Mexico: Journalist Carlos Domínguez Rodríguez Murdered in Nuevo Laredo
----------------------------------------------------------------------

In Mexico, longtime journalist Carlos Domínguez Rodríguez was murdered
in the border town of Nuevo Laredo on Saturday, in the first murder of a
media worker in Mexico this year. He was an independent journalist who,
in one of his final columns for the online outlet Noreste Digital, wrote
about the growing political violence ahead of Mexico's presidential
elections in July. Reporters Without Borders says Domínguez was dragged
from his car by masked men and stabbed to death in broad daylight. Last
year Mexico was among the deadliest countries in the world for
journalists.


.