The Latest Breaking News from Lourdes Maldonado López

Mexican officials say a notorious cartel killed 2 Tijuana journalists. Critics aren’t buying it

TIJUANA, Mexico — Journalists, academics and law enforcement officials in Mexico are not convinced that the Arellano-Félix cartel was behind the January slayings of two prominent Tijuana journalists, as the government claims.

Tribune News Service · May 19, 2022

En medio de los asesinatos de periodistas, el presidente mexicano intenta avergonzar al reportero que informó sobre su hijo

El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, se ha burlado durante mucho tiempo de los periodistas llamándolos "vendidos", sesgados y pretenciosos, que están alineados con sus enemigos políticos. En sus conferencias de prensa matutinas incluye un segmento ocasional llamado "Quién es quién de las mentiras", en el que nombra…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 14, 2022

As journalists die, Mexico defends its press protection plan

Even as Mexicans lament the killings of five reporters, photographers and videographers in just six weeks, they wonder how this is happening, despite a 10-year-old program that is meant to protect journalists

The Independent UK · Feb 11, 2022

Commentary: Mexico must end killings of journalists

On Jan. 23, Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado López was shot dead in her car in front of her home in Tijuana. She was the third Mexican journalist to be murdered that month, after another Tijuana reporter, crime photographer Margarito Martínez, was shot and killed on Jan. 17, and reporter José…

Tribune News Service · Jan 31, 2022

Journalists across Mexico protest killings of 3 this year

The photographs of three recently murdered journalists have been hung on a barrier outside Mexico’s National Palace and journalists across the country say they plan demonstrations to protest the slayings

The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2022

Dog waiting for murdered Mexican journalist breaks hearts and casts spotlight on three brutal killings

Three journalists were killed in Mexico in the first three weeks of 2022

The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2022

In deadly start to year, 3 journalists killed in Mexico

A journalist has been killed in the northern Mexico border city of Tijuana

The Independent UK · Jan 24, 2022

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

Lourdes Maldonado was shot in Tijuana, a week after another journalist was killed, and a third was fatally stabbed days earlier

The Guardian - US · Jan 24, 2022

She told Mexico's president she feared for her life. Then she was killed

MEXICO CITY — Journalist Lourdes Maldonado López stood before the Mexican president at a televised news conference and pleaded for help.

Los Angeles Times · Jan 24, 2022