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According to reports, journalist Lourdes Maldonada López was shot down in her car outside her home in Tijuana, Mexico on Sunday.
Reportedly, three years ago Lourdes stood up before Mexico’s president , Andrés Manuel López Obrado and said, I fear for my life.
According to reports, the murder comes less than a week after photographer Margarito Martínez was shot down outside his home, also in Tijuana.
Reportedly, days earlier another journalist, José Luis Gambia was fatally stabbed in Veracruz state. According to the report, over fifty journalists have been murdered since Andrés López Obrado became president in 2018.