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January 25, 2022

Lourdes Maldonado López Murdered in Tijuana, Third Journalist Killed in Mexico This Month
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In Mexico, another journalist has been assassinated in the northern
border city of Tijuana. Lourdes Maldonado López is the third journalist
killed in Mexico this month. She was found fatally shot inside a car
Sunday. In 2019, Maldonado went to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López
Obrador's daily morning news conference and pleaded for his help because
she feared for her life. This is one of Maldonado's friends and
colleagues.

Octavio Favela: "The mechanism for the protection of journalists should
have had a patrol car patrolling permanently outside of Lourdes's home,
and they didn't do it. How is it possible that someone can come to kill
a person that needs to be protected? The murderer comes, waits for her,
then leaves, just like that. How is that possible?"



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