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Yucatan Times on December 22, 2020
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A former mayor from northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state has been arrested for “complicity” in the 2017 murder of journalist Miroslava Breach, authorities have said.
A Chihuahua court “has succeeded in establishing the probable responsibility” of Hugo Amed Shultz, former mayor of Chinipas, for having “sought and provided information to an organised crime group which ordered and carried out the murder,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement without providing further details on Thursday.
Mexico is regularly rated by journalism watchdog Reporters Without Borders as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists.