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Journalist from Puebla, Mexico denounced intimidating attack against him: 'I see it as a warning'

  • Source: Infobae
  • December 21, 2022

"Ricardo Carvajal Salazar denounced having been the victim of a 'warning,' after the advertising office he owns was shot at with high-powered weapons in the early hours of Dec. 19. This was made known by the NGO, Article 19, which reported the facts through social media. Due to the fact that the shots were fired outside working hours, no one was injured. [...]

According to the information shared, Carvajal Salazar is a correspondent for El Sol de Puebla, and is in charge of covering local security issues as well as politics. He recently focused on a conflict over a water leak in the municipality of Amozoc.

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Article 19, an organization that promotes and defends the rights of freedom of expression, issued an alert about the incident. It reiterated that in the first semester of 2022, Puebla was placed as the sixth state with the highest number of aggressions against the press, with 16 attacks."

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