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February 28, 2020

Accomplice Sentenced in Murder of Mexican Journalist Javier Valdez
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In Mexico, one of the men who participated in the murder of
award-winning journalist Javier Valdez was sentenced Thursday to nearly
15 years in prison. Heriberto Picos Barraza served as a getaway driver
for two other men who are charged with dragging Valdez from his car and
shooting him 12 times. The murder in May 2017 came less than a block
from the office of Ríodoce, the newspaper Valdez co-founded in the
Mexican state of Sinaloa.


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