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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

Third Mexican journalist killed this year as press corps faces murder crisis

Police cars guarding the crime scene where journalist Lourdes Maldonado López was murder in Santa Fe, Tijuana's outskirts, on Sunday.
Police cars guarding the crime scene where journalist Lourdes Maldonado López was murder in Santa Fe, Tijuana's outskirts, on Sunday. Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images

Three years ago reporter Lourdes Maldonado López stood up before Mexico’s president at a press conference and told him: “I fear for my life.”

On Sunday she was gunned down in the city of Tijuana – the third Mexican journalist to be killed this year in what is a deepening murder crisis facing the country’s press corps and its populist leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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