(WAN/IFEX) – In a 30 November 2004 letter to President Vicente Fox, WAN and the World Editors Forum (WEF) expressed their outrage at the murder of photographer Gregorio Rodriguez. According to reports, Rodriguez, a photographer with “El Debate” newspaper, which has editions in Culiacan and Mazatlan, was murdered on 27 November in Escuinapa, in the […]
(WAN/IFEX) – In a 30 November 2004 letter to President Vicente Fox, WAN and the World Editors Forum (WEF) expressed their outrage at the murder of photographer Gregorio Rodriguez.
According to reports, Rodriguez, a photographer with “El Debate” newspaper, which has editions in Culiacan and Mazatlan, was murdered on 27 November in Escuinapa, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, an area well known for drug trafficking. Rodriguez died instantly when he was shot at least five times as he ate at a restaurant with his wife and sons. The motive for the murder is not yet known and no arrests have been made.
WAN and WEF reminded the president that Mexico remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world in which to be a journalist. Rodriguez’s murder comes only three months after the killing of “Portavoz” columnist Francisco Arratia Saldierna in the border city of Matamoros (see IFEX alert of 2 September 2004).
