“Journalist Francisco Alejandro Leyva was shot and killed Wednesday in San Pablo Etla, in central Oaxaca, according to local media reports. Oaxaca Gov. Salomón Jara condemned the killing.
It’s the second attack on press workers in recent days. More than half a dozen journalists have been killed in Mexico this year. Last week, journalist Josué Martínez, executive producer of Noticias San Martín Texmelucan, was shot by armed men in Puebla.
Leyva was attacked while he was at a street food stand. He was a former executive producer of the Oaxacan Radio and Television Corporation (Cortv for its initials in Spanish) and currently covered political and current affairs in Oaxaca in his column, ‘El zumbido del Moscardón,’ which he distributed via social media.”
