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Two journalists murdered in one week in Mexico

"Two journalists were murdered in Mexico in a week. Freelance photojournalist Margarito Martínez was shot on Monday Jan. 17 in the border city of Tijuana, the same day the murder of another journalist in the state of Veracruz was confirmed.

Martínez, who worked as a police photographer for several national and international media outlets and had registered with the state mechanism for the protection of journalists, was shot outside his home.

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Just hours before his murder, the murder of Mexican communicator José Luis Gamboa, who died after being attacked with a knife during an alleged assault in Veracruz, a state with a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico, had been confirmed.

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Both the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the activist group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on authorities to fully investigate both murders."

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