Mexico is on course for one of its deadliest years yet for the press, with five journalists murdered already in 2022, prompting calls for authorities to end a culture of impunity.
A journalist was shot dead in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Thursday, the fifth killed this year in Mexico, the state prosecutor s office said in a statement.
Independent journalist Heber Lopez was gunned down in his car outside his studio in Oaxaca. Mexico ranks as the most dangerous place in the Western Hemisphere for journalists.