Published by DD from material at Colectivo Pericu and Mexico News Daily
A crime reporter who wrote for a Los Cabos blog was murdered yesterday.
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A crime reporter who wrote for a Los Cabos blog was murdered yesterday.
Minutes before noon on Good Friday in La Paz, Maximino Rodríguez Palacios had just parked his car in a handicap parking space outside of the store known as City Club Forjadores, As he was getting out of his blue Honda sedan to go get a wheel chair for his disabled wife so they could go shopping, gunfire, apparently from high powered rifles, erupted from a white pickup truck behind his car.
His wife was not injured but he died at the scene and his lifeless body fell back into the car.
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Rodriguez, 73, was the crime beat reporter for the online blog Colectivo Pericú and was also a correspondent for the newspapers El Heraldo and Excélsior, writing a column on security.
Maximino Rodríguez Palacios became the fourth journalist to be killed in Mexico in less than two months. He was the second journalist targeted in the state in less than a month.
Julio Omar Gómez Sánchez survived an attack in Cabo San Lucas March 28, but his bodyguard was killed.
The blog Colectivo Pericu issued a statement saying ;
"Collective Pericú firmly rejects this attack against a comrade, as well as the members of the journalistic guild, especially those who cover high-impact events. In the same way, we demand from the authorities their application in clarifying this and many other crimes that remain unpunished and have left families shattered by pain.
We unite in this pain that grips those who knew him. . We make it clear that his professional work always lived up to the information needs of the population.. With courage, Max Rodríguez along with his colleagues, was always in the first line to fully comply with their work of transmitting the facts in real time. .
Colectivo Pericú, a means of citizen denunciation, is in mourning. We know that from today nothing will be the same for us. Your comrades Cuauhtémoc Morgan and Hermelinda Vargas, as well as the journalistic union that dealt with you friend Max, we will be in permanent demand that justice be done before the abomination that has happened.
May God receive you in your Holy Glory!
His wife was not injured but he died at the scene and his lifeless body fell back into the car.
Maximino Rodríguez Palacios became the fourth journalist to be killed in Mexico in less than two months. He was the second journalist targeted in the state in less than a month.
Julio Omar Gómez Sánchez survived an attack in Cabo San Lucas March 28, but his bodyguard was killed.
The blog Colectivo Pericu issued a statement saying ;
"Collective Pericú firmly rejects this attack against a comrade, as well as the members of the journalistic guild, especially those who cover high-impact events. In the same way, we demand from the authorities their application in clarifying this and many other crimes that remain unpunished and have left families shattered by pain.
We unite in this pain that grips those who knew him. . We make it clear that his professional work always lived up to the information needs of the population.. With courage, Max Rodríguez along with his colleagues, was always in the first line to fully comply with their work of transmitting the facts in real time. .
Colectivo Pericú, a means of citizen denunciation, is in mourning. We know that from today nothing will be the same for us. Your comrades Cuauhtémoc Morgan and Hermelinda Vargas, as well as the journalistic union that dealt with you friend Max, we will be in permanent demand that justice be done before the abomination that has happened.
May God receive you in your Holy Glory!