Tag: Tijuana

A journalist who told the president she feared for her life three years ago was murdered in Tijuana on Sunday, the second murder of a media professional in a week in this northwestern Mexican border town. United States, authorities said on Monday. Lourdes Maldonado Lopez was killed by a "firearm while she was in a vehicle," the Baja California state attorney general's office said in a statement. She "worked as a journalist", added the prosecution, announcing the opening of an investigation. Another journalist, photoreporter Margarito Martinez, was killed last Monday in the same town. He collaborated with the weekly Zeta, the daily Jornada and foreign journalists reporting in the region. The prosecution said it was not ruling out any motive in its investigation....