Thursday, January 23, 2025

Another attack against the press in Mico leaves one dead

Roberto Toledo
Photo: Magdalena Alonso/ On-Air News Zituaro.

By Heriberto Paredes and Rodrigo Caballero
Special for Pen Sula 360 Press

Zituaro, Michoac . On the afternoon of January 31, 2022, Roberto Toledo was murdered, identified as a contributor to the news portal Michoac MonitorThe events occurred in the Moctezuma Oriente neighborhood, in the office of the lawyer, Joel Vera, where Toledo was located, who also worked as the sole manager of these offices, where a group of armed men arrived and opened fire.

As a result of the wounds caused by bullet impacts, the 55-year-old man died in a hospital in the city of Zituaro, in a municipality of the same name located in the east of the state of Michoac on the border with the State of Mico.

The version transmitted by Armando Linares, director of the news portal, is that both he and the lawyer were about to have a meeting in said offices, however, before it took place, someone rang the doorbell asking for Joel Vera; Roberto Toledo, upon opening the door, received the shots that, finally, took his life.

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