UN urges protection as another journalist is shot to death in Mexico

A journalist who covered nan convulsive occidental Mexico authorities of Michoacan for a Facebook news page has been changeable to death

MEXICO CITY -- The U.N. quality authorities agency successful Mexico said Wednesday journalists successful Mexico request much protection, aft gunmen killed a man whose Facebook news page covered nan violent occidental Mexico authorities of Michoacan.

Journalist Mauricio Solís of nan news page Minuto por Minuto was changeable to decease precocious Tuesday conscionable moments aft he conducted a sidewalk question and reply pinch nan politician of nan metropolis of Uruapan (ooh-roo-WAH-pan). State prosecutors said a 2nd personification was wounded successful nan shooting.

Solís had conscionable vanished an question and reply connected nan thoroughfare extracurricular metropolis hallway pinch Mayor Carlos Manzo. Manzo told section media he had walked distant and “two minutes later, I think, and conscionable a matter of meters away, we heard gunshots, 4 aliases 5 gunshots.”

“We sought screen because we thought nan onslaught was aimed astatine us,” Manzo said. “After a fewer minutes we recovered retired that Mauricio was nan 1 they attacked.”

Manzo said he could not norm retired a relationship betwixt nan question and reply and nan killing.

The U.N. authorities agency said Solís was astatine slightest nan 5th journalist killed successful Mexico this year. It said he had antecedently reported information problems related to his work. His Facebook page reported connected organization events and nan supplier cartel unit that has wracked nan city.

“His sidesplitting is simply a wake-up telephone to take sides nan correct to accusation and state of look successful Mexico,” nan agency wrote.

An expanding number of nan journalists killed successful Mexico person been self-employed and reported for section Facebook and online news sites.

Uruapan is nan nearest ample metropolis to Michoacan's avocado-growing region, and it has been nan segment of supplier cartel extortions and turf battles betwixt gangs. The cartels demand protection money from section avocado and lime orchards, cattle ranches and almost immoderate different business.

Solís was reporting connected a suspicious occurrence astatine a section marketplace conscionable earlier nan shooting. Gangs person sometimes burned businesses that garbage to salary extortion demands.

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