Asesinan a periodista director de una página de noticias en el sur de México / Mexican Journalist Shot Dead in Acapulco
ACAPULCO.- Nelson Matus Peña, director de la página de noticias Lo Real de Guerrero, fue asesinado a balazos este sábado en la ciudad turística de Acapulco, en la costa del Pacífico Mexicano.
La Fiscalía General del Estado (FGE) de Guerrero, en el sur de México, inició una carpeta de investigación por homicidio calificado contra quien o quienes resulten responsables del homicidio del comunicador, ocurrido en la colonia Zapata del balneario en el estado de mexicano de Guerrero.
De acuerdo con reportes policiales, poco después de las tres de la tarde se recibió una llamada al número de emergencias 911 porque un hombre había resultado herido en el estacionamiento de la tienda departamental Coppel.
Al llegar al lugar los paramédicos encontraron el cuerpo sin vida, por lo que la zona fue acordonada para las diligencias y el levantamiento del cuerpo, que fue identificado en el lugar por sus pertenencias.
En sus inicios, Lo Real de Guerrero se especializaba en nota roja, pero desde hace algunos años también se publicaba información general e institucional.
En agosto de 2019, Matus Peña también sufrió un atentado a balazos en la colonia Postal del mismo municipio, del que resultó ileso.
La Federación de Periodistas de Acapulco y la Asociación de Reporteros de Información Policial en Guerrero condenaron el asesinato y exigieron investigar y castigar el hecho.
«A las autoridades de los tres órdenes de Gobierno pedimos las garantías necesarias para llevar a cabo nuestra labor informativa», expresaron los reportes de policial.
EFE
Mexican Journalist Shot Dead in Acapulco
A Mexican journalist was shot dead in a store parking lot on Saturday in the southern tourist town of Acapulco, regional authorities said, the country’s second journalist to be killed in a week.
Prosecutors said they have opened an investigation into the killing of Nelson Matus for homicide with a firearm, days after another journalist was found dead in a country considered one of the most dangerous in the world for members of the press.
Matus, the director of news outlet Lo Real de Guerrero, was shot as he was getting into his car in a thrift shop parking lot.
The Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said in a statement that it “reiterates its commitment to exhaust every line of investigation” into his death.
Matus had worked as a journalist for 15 years, specializing in covering violence in the country, Mexico delegate for press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders Balbina Flores told AFP.
More than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, according to the group, in attacks that are often linked to powerful drug cartels.
Guerrero state is facing particularly high levels of violence, making journalists there more vulnerable, Flores said.
“Most of the journalists from that state have been displaced” to other regions or abroad because they have been victims of attacks and death threats, she said.
The body of fellow journalist Luis Martin Sanchez, a correspondent for La Jornada newspaper, was found this week “with signs of violence,” officials said, after he had been reported missing.
La Jornada, a leftist newspaper founded in 1985 in Mexico City, has already lost two of its most widely known correspondents: Miroslava Breach, killed in Chihuahua in March 2017, and Javier Valdez, who was also a contributor to AFP, murdered in Sinaloa in May of the same year.
Sanchez was one of three active or former journalists who had been abducted in the western state of Nayarit, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
His body turned up in a village near the state capital Tepic with two cardboard messages pinned to his chest, the office added, without specifying what the messages said.
Another former journalist, Osiris Maldonado de la Paz, was kidnapped from his home in the town of Xalisco this month, while a third kidnapped journalist was later found alive.
According to the government, there were 13 killings of journalists reported in Mexico in 2022 alone. Most crimes against journalists remain unpunished.
Dozens of journalists held demonstrations in Mexico City and other areas following Sanchez’s death, calling for justice.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned his murder and called for a “prompt, thorough, independent and effective” investigation.
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