One year after President Manuel Zelaya was ousted from office, Honduras has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, according to the International Press Institute. The article includes a timeline of the murders of Honduran journalists in 2010.
The IPI is urging the government to take action to stop the killings of journalists.
Luis Arturo Mondragón, news director for a local cable news channel, was the ninth media worker killed in Honduras so far this year.
In May, the minister of security submitted to a Congress a report about the journalists' deaths.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
