Local figures suspected in fifth murder of journalist in Mexico in 2022

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Mexico’s president must be held to his promise to combat impunity for murders of journalists, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said as it called for a swift and transparent investigation into the murder of a local news website editor in the southern state of Oaxaca that brings the number of journalists killed in Mexico since the start of 2022 to five – a record in such a short period.

Website director Heber López Vásquez, 39, was slain on 10 February in Salina Cruz, a Pacific coast port town in the Tehuantepec isthmus, by two men who had followed him as he walke

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