translated from Spanish: Journalist Francisco Romero killed in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo

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Mexico.-According to preliminary reports, the Communicator Francisco Romero, known as the “Walla Walla”, was found lifeless on 115 Avenue, outside the bar La gout, with gunshots in the body.
Francisco Romero was administrator and Director of the Facebook Information page “Happened Here”, also collaborated for different media in Playa del Carmen.
According to the newspaper Quintana Roo today, Francisco covered red Note in Playa del Carmen and one of his last works was to report the shooting that occurred in the bar Chapultepec-brewery in which a person died and there were 11 injured.
 
#AlertaGUARDIAN executed reporter Francisco Romero “El Walla Walla” in #PlayaDelCarmen which would have denounced on several occasions threats from the mayor of #Solidaridad @LauraBeristain. He was hit and shot in the head #NiUnoMas @SEGOB_mx @FGRMexico pic.twitter.com/xj6cpTTX3q
— Displaced journalists Mexico (@PDesplazadosMX) May 16, 2019

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Throughout the last six-day term, by Enrique Peña Nieto, 47 journalists were murdered, according to the organization’s Count article 19.
Mexico is the second most dangerous country in the world to pursue journalism after Syria, with more than 100 communicators killed since 2000, according to Reporters Without Borders.

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