The journalist Alejandro Gallegosdirector of the weekly La Voz del Pueblo and professor at the Juárez Autonomous University of Tabasco, was found dead this Saturday in that state.
The Tabasco prosecutor’s office detailed in a statement that the journalist’s body was found at the foot of a road and that the motive for the crime is in the investigation stage.
The organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) He “deeply” regretted the lifeless discovery of Gallegos and demanded that the prosecution “investigate the facts considering his journalistic work.”
The group also asked the federal government’s Journalist Protection Mechanism to “guarantee the safety” of the communicator’s family.
He Governor of Tabasco, Javier May, He regretted “the loss” of Gallegos in a message on the social network X and assured that his administration’s commitment is “zero impunity.”
Violence hits Mexico
Mexico, hit by a wave of violence from organized crime, is considered one of the most dangerous countries to practice journalism, with more than 150 journalists murdered since 1994, according to RSF.
Since the taking possession of Claudia Sheinbaum as president On October 1, 2024, at least two other journalists have been murdered in Mexico, according to the organization.
Mauricio Cruz Solis He was shot to death in Michoacán (west) on October 29 and on January 17 the homicide of Calletano de Jesús Guerrero was recorded in the central State of Mexico.
Guerrero was “constantly threatened for his work,” according to RSF, and was a beneficiary of the Protection Mechanism.
Tabasco, home of oil production facilities and homeland of the former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024)has experienced an increase in violent crime in recent months.
On January 5, a shooting in a bar in the state left seven dead and five injured. Previously, in November, six people were killed and 10 injured in another armed assault on a nightclub.
Villahermosa, the capital of that state, was the city with the highest perception of insecurity in Mexico in the last quarter of 2024, according to a survey by the National Institute of Statistics (Inegi). The survey showed that 95.3% of adults in that city consider it “unsafe” to live there.
