Seven journalists have been killed in Mico so far this year. Last night, Sonora media reported the murder of the director of the news portal El Informativo, Jorge Camero Zazueta, who was shot at the exit of the gym where he was training.
The journalist, who was also former private secretary to Mayor Luis Fuentes Aguilar of the Empalme municipality in Sonora, died after being the victim of an armed attack in the Libertad neighborhood.
According to local media, Camero, only 28 years old, received at least three bullet wounds from a group of armed men who arrived at the scene on motorcycles.
Camero was a columnist for the news portal, and just two weeks ago he had resigned from his job as personal secretary to Fuentes Aguilar, so he returned to take the reins of his media outlet.
This week, another crime against a member of the media occurred. The television host, Michel Simon, originally from Veracruz, was found dead in a spot in Ajusco in the city of Mico, bringing the number of journalists murdered in Mico to six.
This same month, on February 10, journalist Heber L ez V quez was killed in the municipality of Salina Cruz, Oaxaca.
These names join those killed in January: José Luis Gamboa, director of an Internet portal in the state of Veracruz; independent photographer Margarito MartÃnez; journalist Lourdes Maldonado in the border city of Tijuana; and Roberto Toledo, a contributor to the news portal Monitor Michoac, who was shot in the city of Zituaro in Michoac.
The press in Mexico is experiencing one of its darkest moments. Worldwide, the country has become the second most dangerous place to practice journalism, while from the presidential chair its work is attacked almost daily.
The situation has not gone unnoticed and has generated protests and reactions of rejection from national and international organizations.
The issue of journalists killed in Mexico has even raised eyebrows among senior US officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said on his Twitter account: