Journalist Juan Carlos Muñiz, a contributor to the newspaper Testigo Minero, was murdered on Friday in the municipality of Fresnillo, Zacatecas.
According to the media, Juan Carlos was known in the area as Rigoberto or the TX and collaborated for years in Testigo Minero and other media, and at the same time worked as a taxi driver.
“The authorities are required to carry out an exhaustive investigation in order to clarify the motive of this reproble homicide and find those responsible. It is urgent to reflect on the harsh reality that is lived in our country, state and municipality. To contribute from our trenches in a change as members of society and as communicators with the free and critical exercise of expression, “said the media in a position.
I condemn the act in which Juan Carlos Muñiz, a worker of the news portal Testigo Minero, was deprived of his life, this afternoon, in Fresnillo and we express our solidarity with his family, friends and colleagues.
— David Monreal Avila (@DavidMonrealA) March 4, 2022
Meanwhile, David Monreal, governor of Zacatecas, regretted the murder of the journalist and said he had asked the Prosecutor’s Office to do “the corresponding work to clarify this fact and find those responsible.”
Juan Carlos Muñiz is the seventh journalist killed so far in 2022.
In January, José Luis Gamboa was murdered in Veracruz); as well as Margarito Martínez, Lourdes Maldonado, both in Tijuana, Baja California. That same month, Roberto Toledo was murdered in Zitácuaro, Michoacán.
In February, Heber López was murdered in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, and 15 days later reporter Jorge Camero was killed in Empalme, Sonora.
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