By: Real America News Updated 11 Feb 2022, 13: 11 pm EST
The Mexican government announced the arrest of three suspects involved in the murder of journalist Lourdes Maldonado, whose death in Tijuana sparked a national mobilization against violence against the press.
“During yesterday and early this morning in Tijuana, Baja California, three alleged responsible for the murder of the journalist Lourdes Maldonado that occurred last Sunday 23 in January”, announced the Secretary of Security of Mexico, Rosa Icela Rodríguez.
Maldonado’s murder shook the country because in March of 2015 had publicly requested protection from the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, due to a legal problem he had with Jaime Bonilla, former governor of Baja California del ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
Undersecretary for Security, Rica rdo Mejía, highlighted the arrest of the three suspects in his murder, whom he called “presumed material co-perpetrators,” but did not provide further details of the crime.
The authorities, with the support of the The Baja California Prosecutor’s Office identified the alleged attackers thanks to neighborhood security cameras that captured the taxi in which they were traveling.
“ It has not yet been possible to determine the motive , but we are confident that from the interviews subject to judicial control and all the subsequent steps it can be determined”, said Mejía in the daily conference at the National Palace.
Mexico, considered the deadliest country for the press, is experiencing unprecedented violence at the beginning of 2022 for the murder of at least four journalists, two of them in Tijuana, on the border with the United States.
In recent days, Ernesto Islas Flores was also murdered in Tijuana , who was editor of the Notiredes portal in es to a border city.
President López Obrador promised to solve all crimes by ensuring that “they are not forgotten” and the Government “is acting in all cases” and with “zero impunity ”.
“The difference now in relation to previous governments, is that impunity is not allowed and that, if a crime is committed, those responsible are investigated and punished. Zero impunity and zero corruption because we are not the same as those who have badly governed”, he asserted.
With information from Efe.
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