Three Mexican Journalists Murdered in Quick Succession at the Beginning of August 2019

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Between July 30 and August 2, 2019, three journalists were killed, and a newspaper, El Monitor de Parral in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, was firebombed. Rogelio Barragán Pérez, in Morelos, Edgar Alberto Nava López, in Guerrero, and Jorge Celestino Ruiz Vázquez, in Veracruz, were all murdered within four days’ time. Even by Mexican standards, which for years has been one of the most dangerous countries in the world to practice journalism, this spree was considered extreme. International organizations and editorialists condemned the murders and the attack as examples of an ongoing pattern to curtail press freedom and threaten democracy in Mexico.

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