Another journalist was killed in the Mexican border town of Tijuana on Sunday evening.
According to the Mexican newspaper "El Vijía", the victim is Lourdes Maldonado, who worked for the CNR television station, among other things.
She was shot by gunmen from a taxi.
This means that three media workers have already been killed in Mexico this year alone.
A few days earlier, Maldonado himself had taken part in a vigil in memory of the photographer Margarito Martinez who had been shot before. He was killed while leaving his home in Tijuana. About two weeks earlier, the director of a digital radio station, José Luis Gamboa in Veracruz, was so badly injured in an attack that he died. The background to the crimes is so far unclear.
In a press conference in March, Maldonado asked the left-wing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for help: She had come to ask for help and support because she feared for her life, the journalist said at the time, referring to a legal dispute in which she was with former ex-governor Jaime Bonilla of the governing Morena party.
Last week, Maldonado reported a legal victory in the case.
In response to the murder, several media representatives gathered at a tollbooth on the Tijuana freeway, calling for the murder to be investigated and for better protection for journalists.
According to a report by "Reporters Without Borders", Mexico is currently the most dangerous country for journalists worldwide. The entanglement of politics and organized crime makes it life-threatening to report on sensitive topics such as corruption or drug and human trafficking and paralyzes legal prosecution crimes against media workers.
In addition, there is almost complete impunity: in 95 to 99 percent of the murders of journalists, the masterminds go unpunished.