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. September 25, 2018 Ninth Mexican Journalist Killed This Year ----------------------------------------- In news from Mexico, a newspaper journalist in the southern state of Chiapas has been assassinated after reporting on corruption involving a local member of Congress. Mario Gómez Sánchez becomes at least the ninth journalist killed in Mexico this year. He was killed on Friday when two attackers on motorbikes approached him and opened fire. .