{"id":63,"date":"2018-12-07T04:30:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/07\/19-mexican-journalists-murdered-so-far-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-12-07T04:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:30:03","slug":"19-mexican-journalists-murdered-so-far-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/07\/19-mexican-journalists-murdered-so-far-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Mexican Journalists Murdered So Far in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A team of gunmen in Central Mexico ambushed and killed a journalist as he drove home from work. The slaying marks the 19th murder of a journalist in Mexico this year and the second of its kind since a new president took office.<\/h2>\n

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This week, 35-year-old Diego Garcia Corona was driving in Ecatepec, Mexico State, when a group of unknown gunmen ambushed and shot him several times inside his car. As Mexica authorities responded to he the scene, they found Garcia slumped over the driver\u2019s side of the vehicle. Inside the vehicle, Mexico State investigators found a work ID that revealed that Garcia was an employee at a weekly publication called Semanario Morelos<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The murder was condemned on social media by Jesus Ramirez Cuevas, the new head of communications for Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The new president is also known as AMLO.<\/p>\n

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Condenamos el homicidio de Diego Garc\u00eda Corona, reportero del semanario Morelos, #Edomex<\/a> y externamos condolencias a su familia. Trabajamos en un plan de prevenci\u00f3n, protecci\u00f3n, acceso a la justicia y reparaci\u00f3n del da\u00f1o que d\u00e9 garant\u00edas a periodistas #LibertadDeExpresi\u00f3n<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jes\u00fas Ram\u00edrez Cuevas (@JesusRCuevas) December 6, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ramirez also condemned last week\u2019s murder of print journalist Jesus Alejandro Marquez Jimenez.<\/p>\n

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Lamentamos profundamente el asesinato de Jes\u00fas Alejandro M\u00e1rquez Jim\u00e9nez, periodista y director de Ori\u00f3n Informativo (Nayarit) y externamos nuestras condolencias a sus familiares. No descansaremos hasta lograr un M\u00e9xico donde exista justicia, libertad de expresi\u00f3n y seguridad.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jes\u00fas Ram\u00edrez Cuevas (@JesusRCuevas) December 3, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As Breitbart News reported over the weekend, authorities in the western state of Nayarit found the body of Jesus Alejandro Marquez Jimenez<\/a> who went missing just one day before. The journalist was the director of Orion Informativo<\/em> and also worked with several other outlets.<\/p>\n

Other Journalists Murdered in 2018:<\/strong><\/h3>\n