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Miroslava Breach Velducea
La Jornada
Mexico
Reporter Miroslava Breach Velducea was taking her son to school March 23, 2017, when eight shots were fired into her car. She died en route to the hospital. Her son was unharmed. A note left at the scene read: "For being a loud mouth." Breach, 54, had been reporting on links between drug cartels and mayoral candidates in several towns in Chihuahua, Mexico. Her stories ran in the national newspaper La Jornada and local newspapers Norte and El Diario de Chihuahua as well as through her own news agency MIR. Nine months later, a drug cartel member was arrested for plotting her murder. Shortly after Breach's killing, Norte newspaper shuttered for good, citing the risks its journalists faced. In 2017, six reporters were killed in Mexico, one of the deadliest countries for journalists. |