Guanajuato Gov. Diego Rodríguez Vallejo condemned the Tuesday evening killings by way of Twitter Wednesday.
Sánchez mentioned that at this level it was unknown whether or not the assault was associated to Méndez’s journalistic work, his function as consultant of native companies within the planning of an upcoming honest or one thing else.
Press freedom group Article 19 known as on the federal government to protect Méndez’s colleagues and kinfolk.
Méndez had additionally labored till three years in the past on the information website Zona Franca, in line with its director Carmen Martínez.
It was not instantly clear whether or not Méndez was enrolled within the federal authorities’s safety program for journalists and human rights defenders beneath menace.
Whereas organized crime is usually concerned in journalist killings, small city officers or politicians with political or legal motivations are sometimes suspects as properly. Journalists operating small information shops in Mexico’s inside are simple targets.
