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Seven years after murder of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez, demand for justice continues

“To mark the seventh anniversary of the murder of journalist Javier Arturo Valdez Cárdenas, his family, accompanying organizations, media and journalists, continue with the demand for justice for the atrocious crime, which occurred on May 15, 2017 in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, [Mexico].

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Currently, the legal cases against the perpetrators in Javier's homicide are in advanced stages: since February 2020, Heriberto Picos Barraza chose to be sentenced through an abbreviated procedure, being given 14 years and 8 months, a sentence that is firm.

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However, the Mexican State and its institutions have a large debt in the case: achieving the extradition of the alleged mastermind of the homicide, Dámaso López Serrano, alias Mini Lic, who is in the United States supposedly as a defendant and key witness. in multiple legal cases.”

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