By Ingrid Bachmann
Luís Arturo Mondragón, news director for a local cable news channel, died after leaving work when two people shot him from the window of their vehicle in El Paraíso, east of the capital, El Heraldo reports.
According to the Associated Press, Mondragón is the ninth media worker who has died in similar circumstances this year in Honduras, eight of them in the four months. Police said they were investigating the case but did not have an immediate motive for the crime.
Security Minister Óscar Álvarez said Mondragón had been accused of cattle theft and other crimes and insisted that the death could not be attributed to a premeditated act to silence the press. Relatives of the journalist say he had reported receiving threats for criticizing local employees and lawmakers of corruption, El Heraldo adds.
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.
