MEXICO CITY: A Mexican TV columnist was shot dead Wednesday in the resort city of Cancun, turning into the eighth writer to be killed for the current year in a nation famously perilous for the media.
Javier Enrique Rodriguez Valladares functioned as a cameraman and correspondent for Canal 10. The station said his family had affirmed his passing.
The administration of Quintana Roo state, which incorporates Cancun, said another man was likewise shot dead with him, purportedly while the combine were strolling down a road in the downtown area.
Waterway 10 said Rodriguez Valladares was for the most part a cameraman yet in addition did meetings and highlights on political issues.
The state government said there was no quick sign the murder was identified with his work however that all roads of examination stayed open.
Rodriguez Valladares is the third columnist to meet a fierce passing in Quintana Roo in the previous two months.
Ruben Pat, manager in-head of the Playa News week by week, was shot dead outside a bar in Playa del Carmen in July, not a long way from the visitor hotspot.
Furthermore, on June 29, Jose Guadalupe Chan was shot dead in a Mayan indigenous town in the south of Quintana Roo. He was additionally working for Playa News as a journalist.
A year ago 11 writers were executed in Mexico which has been attacked by sedate related viciousness.
As per different the right to speak freely associations, in excess of 100 writers have been murdered in Mexico since 2000. By far most of those violations have gone unpunished.