Horror event / Executed with a firearm at the door of the house the journalist, had received systematic threats

A Mexican journalist was executed yesterday near his apartment in the Mexican city of Tijuana, on the border with the United States. Margarito Martinez, 49, was attacked with a firearm very close to his home while on his way to work where he was shot by gunmen. Martinez, a journalist in several media outlets, including the Tijuana weekly 'Zeta', had received systematic threats.

The incident comes just days after the murder of another journalist and social media activist, Jose Luis Gamboa, who died in hospital a few days after being stabbed in the eastern state of Veracruz on January 6th.

At least seven journalists were killed in Mexico in 2021, according to an AFP count, though it has not been determined whether all the killings were related to their work. More than 100 reporters have been killed since 2000 in Mexico and only a fraction of the crimes have resulted in convictions.