A journalist is murdered in Mexico, the ninth in 2022

Some armed individuals kidnapped

last Wednesday, May 4, around 10:00 p.m., when the writer and journalist was walking to a store near his home.

The next morning

on the outskirts of Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa.

He was 59 years old, he was the founder and director of 'Fuentes Fidedignas', a contributor to several national media outlets and

but the wave of violence that the Mexican press is going through ended up dragging him with it.

Ramírez is the ninth journalist murdered in Mexico so far this year.

The scene that the investigators found in the place where the kidnapping took place did not invite optimism.

On the floor there were several blood stains and one of the sandals that Ramírez was wearing.

The witnesses indicated that

The outcome of the tragic event has been confirmed by Sandra Bruna Quiñónez, prosecutor of Sinaloa, through her social networks: "Our sincere condolences to her family and our commitment to work to clarify this fact."

If we look at the statistics, the hope of finding the culprits is rather slim:

"I do feel the imminent danger that I am the one who follows, because

Ramírez assured the Noroeste newspaper in 2015. This veteran journalist was one of the most acquaintances in the Sinaloa media: in the beginning, he worked in the newsrooms of the local newspapers 'Noroeste' and 'El Debate' and, currently, he collaborated as a political analyst and columnist in media outlets such as 'Milenio' or 'Viceversa'.

Between 1992 and 1997, he moved to Mexico City to escape the threats he had suffered in his native Culiacán and worked for 'El Financiero', 'El Nacional' and 'La Jornada'.

In 2010, the

again forced the journalist to take refuge in the Mexican capital, where he placed himself under the protection of the non-governmental organization Article 19. In addition to his journalistic facet, Ramírez also wrote two books: 'La Ingobernable' and 'Wisdom tooth'.

His work was recognized with 14 state and national journalism awards.

This year has been especially violent for the country's press. In little more than four months, nine journalists have already been murdered for exercising their profession:

Unions, NGOs and journalistic associations have taken to the streets several times in recent months to denounce the delicate situation that the union is going through, working in an extremely violent context, with little government investment in protection programs and outrageous levels of impunity.

The country's president,

has not helped improve the situation either.

The Mexican leader maintains a media war with journalists critical of his government, whom he calls "mercenaries" and "coup plotters",

AMLO has created a weekly section in his press conferences entitled 'Who is who in the lies of the press' and even after a journalistic investigation revealed his son's luxurious lifestyle in the US, the president dared to reveal in public the presumed income and properties of the journalist who had signed the news: "he earns about 15 times more than me," assured AMLO.

López Obrador is on his way to becoming the president of Mexico with the

Since he took office on December 1, 2018, and to date, a total of 58 communicators have been killed.

His predecessors,

registered 47 and 48 in their respective six-year terms and AMLO still has more than two years left in office.

Due to the high levels of violence and "the infernal spiral of impunity", Reporters Without Borders considers Mexico as "the most dangerous country without armed conflict for the press in the world."

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