The photograph of the wait for “Chato”, the last dog rescued by Lourdes Maldonado, the journalist murdered in Tijuana, MexicoIt has gone viral on social media. In the image, the brown dog waits for Maldonado with a downcast face at the door of his house.
Maldonado was shot this Sunday in her vehicle and it is the third journalist assassinated in the last two weeks in Mexico. Only so far in 2022 another five have died for the exercise of their profession.
According to Mexican media, Maldonado rescued dogs and cats from the streets of Tijuana, including “Chato” whom he would have helped in recent months.
Later, the photograph of a neighboring girl who brought to the front garden, cordoned off by the police, food and water for the cats that the journalist rescued, was released.
The murder of the journalist has shocked public opinion in Mexico. Maldonado had extensive professional experience and stood out for the coverage of issues related to politics and corruption.
She was also remembered because she publicly asked President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for protection in 2019, before a judicial process that he was holding once morest the former governor of Baja California, Jaime Bonilla, of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
Last week said process was resolved in favor of Maldonado. Bonilla denied his relationship with Maldonado’s murder on Monday.
Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries for the exercise of journalism in the world. It ranks 143rd out of 180 countries in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index.
This Tuesday massive demonstrations were held in more than twenty states and thirty cities in Mexico to protest once morest violence once morest journalists and in defense of the right to information they represent.
