Attackers fired on a truck carrying an Associated Press correspondent and a publicist for Radio Fórmula in the city of Cuernavaca, a favorite vacation destination for Mexico City residents that has become prime ground for battles between rival drug gangs, El Universal and Radio Fórmula report.
The attack left Radio Fórmula’s Marco Antonio Vallejo with a gunshot wound to the leg, while AP reporter Oswald Alonso was uninjured, Excelsior and Vanguardia explain.
Mexico has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world to practice journalism. For more details about recent incidents of violence against the media in Mexico, see this Knight Center map.
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.
