{"id":44188,"date":"2020-10-31T02:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T02:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44188"},"modified":"2020-10-31T02:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T02:23:14","slug":"journalist-murdered-in-mexico-sixth-this-year-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44188","title":{"rendered":"Journalist murdered in Mexico, sixth this year: governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">49-year-old journalist and television news show host, Arturo Alba Medina, was assassinated a few minutes after the end of his programme in Chihuahua state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"85\">\n<p>A Mexican journalist has been shot dead in crime-ridden Ciudad Juarez near the US border, Chihuahua state governor Javier Corral said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Arturo Alba Medina is the sixth journalist to have been murdered this year in Mexico, one of the world\u2019s most dangerous countries for reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Corral condemned the \u201ccowardly murder\u201d and said he had told prosecutors to ensure the killers are punished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice will be done,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old journalist and television news show host was assassinated a few minutes after the end of his programme on Thursday night, according to media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF).<\/p>\n<p>RSF regularly ranks Mexico alongside war-torn Syria and Afghanistan as well as the Philippines as among the world\u2019s most dangerous countries for the news media.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 reporters and other media workers have been murdered since 2000 in Mexico, where asking questions about political corruption or powerful drug cartels can be a deadly business.<\/p>\n<p>Only a fraction of those crimes has resulted in convictions.<\/p>\n<p>In early August, another journalist was killed in the state of Guerrero along with a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>In May, gunmen killed the owner of a newspaper and one of the policemen who had been assigned to protect him in northern Sonora state, following earlier threats.<\/p>\n<p>Murders have jumped in Mexico in the last two years, underscoring the challenges President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has faced since taking office in December 2018 with a promise to reduce violence in the country ravaged by notorious drug cartels.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the deaths were linked to fighting between drug gangs.<\/p>\n<p>Obrador has pledged to \u201ccare for and protect\u201d journalists.<\/p>\n<p>During his predecessor Enrique Pena Nieto\u2019s tenure, at least 42 journalists were killed while there were about 2,000 attacks on reporters, according to an NGO.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, 10 journalists were killed in Mexico, according to an RSF count.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>49-year-old journalist and television news show host, Arturo Alba Medina, was assassinated a few minutes after the end of his programme in Chihuahua state.A Mexican journalist has been shot dead in crime-ridden Ciudad Juarez near the US border, Chihuahua state governor Javier Corral said on Friday. Arturo Alba Medina is the sixth journalist to have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}