Violent campaign against journalism in Mexico

YemenExtra

Another journalist has been killed in Mexico, amid a wave of violence that has targeted media workers in the Latin American country.

Carlos Dominguez was murdered Saturday afternoon in the city of Nuevo Laredo, in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, state officials said in a statement.

The attorney general’s office launched an investigation to determine the circumstances of the killing, including whether it was related to Dominguez’s work as a journalist, the statement said.

Dominguez, who was an independent journalist and wrote a political column, had criticized the reported growing political violence triggered by the upcoming presidential election in July.

Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, the governor of Tamaulipas, condemned the act of violence against the journalist in a post on Twitter.