RIP the Mexican journalist and CPJ awardee Javier Valdéz Cárdenas! Valdéz was shot and killed Monda
RIP the Mexican journalist and CPJ awardee Javier Valdéz Cárdenas! Valdéz was shot and killed Monday near the offices of Ríodoce, the local weekly he founded in 2003 in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state, according to reports.Valdéz, who CPJ honored with an International Press Freedom Award in 2011, was also a correspondent for the daily La Jornada. He covered drug trafficking and crime and wrote a number of books about the drug trade. Valdéz told CPJ in the weeks before his murder that he was concerned for his safety. Read more at CPJ.org.https://cpj.org/2017/05/mexican-journalist-and-cpj-awardee-javier-valdez-c.php -- source link
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