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May 10, 2022

Two More Journalists Murdered in Mexico, the 10th and 11th Such Killings in 2022
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In Mexico, two more journalists have been killed in the Gulf Coast state
of Veracruz. Yessenia Mollinedo Falconi was the director of the online
news site El Veraz. Sheila Johana García Olivera was a reporter at the
same outlet. News of their deaths came as journalists across Mexico took
to the streets protesting the murder of another journalist in the
northern state of Sinaloa, Luis Enrique Ramírez. At least 11 journalists
have been killed in Mexico this year alone.

Rodolfo Montes: "The wave of murders against the journalistic profession
has become uncontrollable. Today, just as we are protesting here in
Mexico City, in Tijuana and in Sinaloa, we learned the sad news that two
of our colleagues were taken from their lives in Veracruz. It is carnage
against journalists in our country. There are no guarantees. The Mexican
state is not providing the guarantees so that we can freely exercise our
journalistic exercise in Mexican territory."



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