A journalist described her assassination on the air frighteningly 5 days before her death
Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado dedicates the last episode of her program to her colleague, the day after he was shot in front of his house, and spoke of her frailty while covering violence in the border city of Tijuana.
In her bold style, she criticized corruption in Mexico and accused a state official of being linked to the drug trade before telling her viewers that she had been under the protection of the state government for eight months
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"They take good care of you...but no one can avoid, not even under the supervision of the police, being killed in front of your house in a cowardly way," she said on a radio and television program broadcast online.
The journalist expected her fate frighteningly, after five days, she was shot in front of her house at seven in the evening, becoming the third journalist to be killed since the beginning of the year in Mexico
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The killing of these journalists over the course of one month represents an unusually high toll in a short period even for Mexico, sparking the largest protest yet against the killings as thousands demonstrated across the country on Tuesday
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The murders of journalists working in the most dangerous place for their profession in the Western Hemisphere have sparked outrage and despair
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On Friday, the day after Maldonado's funeral, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador again criticized the press, saying that his government guarantees freedom of expression but that "too few journalists, women and men, perform their noble mission in the media, and most of them look forward to seeing us fail."
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, since the current administration took office on December 1, 2018, at least 32 journalists have been killed and 15 have disappeared despite a government program to protect them
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More than 50 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2018 despite a government program to protect them and legislation that was supposed to end crimes against journalists
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