Mexico: Two more journalists slain as violence toward the press escalates
Cenzolovka 12.05.2022
Deadly violence towards the press in Mexico continues unabated as two more journalists, Yesenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera, were found slain in the Mexican state of Veracruz on May 9. This brings the number of journalists in Mexico who have been killed so far this year to 11 — making the country as deadly for the press as the current war zone of Ukraine. IPI demands that the Mexican government take immediate action to stop this bloodshed and to secure the safety of the country’s
Mollinedo and García were shot dead by unidentified assailants while sitting in a car outside a convenience store in the town of Cosoleacaque. Mollinedo was the director of a weekly publication called El Veraz, where García also worked as a reporter. El Veraz operates on Facebook, where it shares information about the local municipality’s government and local events. The motto of the publication is “Journalism with Humanity”. Veracruz State Prosecutor Verónica
