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Javier Valdez Cárdenas
Ríodoce
Mexico
Javier Valdez Cárdenas was dragged out of his car and shot 12 times outside his office at Ríodoce magazine in broad daylight on May 15, 2017. The killers took his laptop and cell phone and fled. Journalists at Ríodoce were threatened and attacked for their reporting on Sinaloa Cartel -- Mexico's oldest and most powerful cartel. Valdez was internationally recognized for his fearless investigative reporting on organized crime, corruption and politics as well as his books on Mexico's drug war. In 2011, he received the Committee to Protect Journalists' International Press Freedom Award. Two months before his death, Valdez told CPJ that he feared for his life. In April 2018, a suspect was arrested in his murder, but his colleagues fear it will be difficult to get convictions in Mexico, where journalists' deaths frequently go unsolved. Valdez was 50. |