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March 17, 2022

Michoacán Reporter Armando Linares Becomes Eighth Mexican Journalist Murdered This Year
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In Mexico, journalist Armando Linares was shot dead Tuesday in his home
in the state of Michoacán. No arrests have been made in what is now the
eighth assassination of a Mexican media worker this year. Just six weeks
ago, Armando Linares denounced the murder of his colleague Roberto
Toledo, who also worked at the Monitor Michoacán news outlet, saying at
the time his team had received death threats.

Armando Linares: "Today the threats were ultimately fulfilled. One of
our colleagues lost his life at the hands of three people who shot him
in a mean and cowardly manner. We are not armed. We do not carry
weapons. Our only defense is our pen."



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