Many correspondents do the same as Espinosa considering that the central in Mexico City has configuration workplace helping… Some 90 percent of journalist murders in Mexico since 1992 have gone unpunished, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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“I feel there is a disdain toward investigating the journalistic motives or even motives that had to do with his displacement”, said Dario Ramirez, director of the Article 19 free press advocacy group. “There are numerous locations within the nation the place silence paves the street in order that organized crime, corruption, every part that destroys a society can proceed in a fashion with out … setbacks or obstacles”.
Espinosa moved to the city a few weeks ago after he was threatened and harassed in Veracruz, media reports said.
Freedom of press advocacy group Article 19 says Espinosa is the 88th journalist to be killed in Mexico and the first to be killed while taking refuge in the capital.
Fears that Espinosa’s death could end in impunity were fueled by Sunday’s news conference by Rios, when Mexico City’s prosecutor never acknowledged that Espinosa was seeking refuge in Mexico’s capital, saying he came to the city for “professional opportunities”.
He shot a cover photograph of Duarte for an issue of leading Mexican news magazine Proceso in February of 2014 that was accompanied by the headline, “Veracruz, lawless state“.
The dead included a community organizer from Veracruz named Nadia Vera, 32; a student, Yesenia Quiróz, 18; and two other unidentified women.
Veracruz has been a risky state for reporters.
The our bodies of 4 ladies and a person have been discovered inside an house on Friday night time, a Federal District Attorney’s Office spokesman informed EFE. The attackers would have had to go through two doors to get inside, and neither had signs of damage or break in. Three women who lived in the apartment and their housekeeper also were killed.
The victims have been all shot, the workplace stated on Saturday. He said Espinosa had more confidence in civil agencies like Article 19 and his friends for protection.
Ramirez said Espinosa knew one of the women from working in Veracruz.
None of the cases of abduction and killing of journalists in Veracruz have been solved, according to Carlos Lauria, the senior program coordinator for the Americas at the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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The governor said in a brief press release on Sunday that he “lamented” the deaths, including Espinosa’s, and voiced his support for the investigation led by the Mexico City prosecutor’s office.
