Another Journalist Has Been Gunned Down in Mexico - the Eighth Killed This Year Kate Linthicum - The Los Angeles Times
go to original August 1, 2017

Luciano Rivera Salgado (CNR)

Update: Prosecutors: Mexican Reporter’s Killing Not Linked to His Job (Latin American Herald Tribune)

A journalist celebrating his 29th birthday was shot dead early Monday at a bar in the Mexican resort city of Rosarito.

Luciano Rivera Salgado, who covered crime for a Baja California television channel and published a news website called El Dictamen, is at least the eighth journalist to be killed this year in a country that ranks among the most dangerous for members of the media.

The motive behind the killing — including whether Rivera Salgado was killed because of his journalistic work — was still unclear.

A police official told Zeta newspaper that Rivera Salgado was shot in the head at 1:40 a.m. at La Antigua Bar, an upscale drinking establishment a few blocks from the ocean. Security camera footage from outside the bar shows several men racing out shortly after the shooting.

The official who spoke to Zeta said authorities would investigate the motive but that it appeared Rivera Salgado may have been killed because of “a dispute between the reporter and his aggressors” at the bar. A reporter in Baja California said camera footage from inside the bar suggested Rivera Salgado may have angered other patrons when he defended a group of women whom he believed were being harassed.

Determining exactly why a journalist was killed can be difficult in Mexico, where reporters are frequently targeted because of the stories they publish, but where more general violence is also becoming increasingly widespread.

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