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Another journalist is gunned down in Mexico — the fourth in just six weeks
Los Angeles Times ^
| Kate Linthicum
Posted on 04/15/2017 6:46:27 PM PDT by mdittmar
Another journalist has been killed in Mexico — the fourth in just six weeks.
Authorities said reporter Maximino Rodriguez Palacios was shot dead outside of a shopping center Friday in La Paz, a coastal city in the state of Baja California Sur.
Rodriguez, 72, wrote about politics and crime for a news organization called the Pericu Collective. He had previously worked as a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office.
Friday’s shooting is the latest in a string of violent attacks on journalists in Mexico that has claimed four lives since March 2 and has left several others wounded. The attacks have drawn condemnation from human rights advocates, with the Committee to Protect Journalists calling the situation in Mexico a “crisis” of freedom of expression.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drugcartels; journalists; journalistskilled; mexico
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posted on
04/15/2017 6:46:27 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
Um...I’m no, ‘Journalist’ but...you might want to STOP GOING THERE!?!
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posted on
04/15/2017 6:50:57 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
To: mdittmar
Workplace related violence?
Has Obama said it was their own damned fault as he did when he blamed the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists for their slaughter?
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posted on
04/15/2017 6:52:25 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
To: mdittmar
Does the LA Times think we should provide the murder a sanctuary city?
There is a good reason people shouldn’t be allowed to just cross our borders without us knowing who they are and why they’re here.
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posted on
04/15/2017 6:53:09 PM PDT
by
boycott
To: mdittmar
Can we send some of ours to replace them??
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posted on
04/15/2017 6:53:16 PM PDT
by
eyeamok
(destruction of government records.)
To: boycott
“There is a good reason people shouldn’t be allowed to just cross our borders without us knowing who they are and why they’re here.”
+1
*SMIRK*
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posted on
04/15/2017 6:56:11 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
To: mdittmar
Another journalist is gunned down in Mexico — the fourth in just six weeks Trump is trying hard to get American news anchors to go down and "cover" the story...
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posted on
04/15/2017 6:56:30 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
To: mdittmar
Great. I can already hear Libturd Mexicans calling for the Segundo Amendmento to be repealed.
Uhhhhhh....Mexico does have a Second Amendment doesn't it?
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posted on
04/15/2017 6:57:35 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: mdittmar
I'm not serious but the thought is irrepressible so just for a chuckle ---why does Mexico 🇲🇽 have all the luck?
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posted on
04/15/2017 6:59:07 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
To: mdittmar
And the down side to this story is?
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posted on
04/15/2017 7:00:46 PM PDT
by
stockpirate
(There is a coup in progress, catch them, try them, HANG THEM ALL TREASON)
To: mdittmar
Manuel Buendia was a prominent journo gunned down in the ‘80s down there. This stuff has gone on for a long time except now it’s accelerated, on steroids.
To: eyeamok
I’ve got a list. Scott Pelley is at the top.
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posted on
04/15/2017 7:07:59 PM PDT
by
Hardastarboard
(Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
To: mdittmar
..and dimoKKKRATS want an open border and sanctuary cities. Thank God that Donald J Trump won the Presidency.
To: mdittmar
Sounds like they skipped a couple of weeks. Sloppy.
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posted on
04/15/2017 7:24:58 PM PDT
by
Afterguard
(Deplorable me!)
To: mdittmar
Kind of a half full/half empty thing.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
On the contrary, Americans desperately need to know about this.
That is why we need to send Megyn Kelly, Geraldo Rivera, Shep Smith...
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posted on
04/15/2017 7:29:55 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(MrEdd)
To: mdittmar
can we send Geraldo or Andersen Cooper or that old CNN blowhard to Mexico ?
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posted on
04/15/2017 8:09:52 PM PDT
by
vooch
(t)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Um...I’m no, ‘Journalist’ but...you might want to STOP GOING THERE!?!
What in the world are you people on this thread talking about? This is a Mexican journalist in Mexico. These journalists get shot because they are working to expose the corruption down there, oftentimes how the cartels have bought half the government. This is what actual journalism is about. Geez. Just because our journalists are a bunch of queers and communists, no need to disparage the ones in the rest of the world risking their lives to do their jobs.
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posted on
04/15/2017 8:40:29 PM PDT
by
fr_freak
To: mdittmar
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posted on
04/15/2017 8:41:57 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: fr_freak
The Mexican government is evil. They have instituted many massacres over the years.
But the average American knows diddly squat about Mexico.
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posted on
04/15/2017 8:51:10 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
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