The daughter of a murdered reporter dies from a wound in an attack that killed her father

Reporter's daughter Mexico Tamauripas, which was killed earlier this week in the northern border, died Friday after being injured in an attack that killed his father.

Wednesday,Antonio de la Cruz was killed as the 12th journalist in Mexico this year, and a man on a motorcycle fired at him outside the car. .. His house. His daughter Cynthia de la Cruz Martinez, 23, was with him in the car and she was shot again.

On Friday, the newspaper Expreso, where De la Cruz worked, reported that her daughter died of her injury at a hospital in Ciudad Victoria where the attack occurred. According to the newspaper, she had a gunshot wound on her head.

Also on Friday, Governor Jalisco told the director of the university's radio station in the coastal city of Puerto Vallarta, where he was robbed. I was stabbed by what I described as an attempt.

Governor Enrique Alfaro said that Susanna Carreño was in a stable condition after undergoing surgery.

President Andre Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday that a federal prosecutor had taken over the investigation into the killing of Delacruz as a crime against freedom of speech

According to a colleague, Delacruz was once apparently asked by state officials to remove some of his tweets

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"On Twitter, Antonio is the state government. And criticized the government. " "At some point he even said he asked him to remove some important tweets he made."

De la Cruz, 47, almost For 30 years, I was a reporter for the local newspaper Expreso.

"This is clearly an attack on free speech," said Miguel Dominguez, director of Expresso.

Almost all recent governors of Tamaulipas face corruption charges, from money laundering to drug cartel support.

Expreso has been targeted for years. In 2012, one of the worst years of drug cartel violence, a car bomb exploded in front of a newspaper building. In 2018, a cooler with a human head inside was left in the newspaper and warned not to report violence in the city.

Another reporter killed in Mexico in 2022

In May, two colleagues on a news site were shot dead in the Gulf of Veracruz. The Veracruz Public Prosecutor's Office said it is investigating the killings of online news sites El Yessenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera. Veracruz of Cosoleacaque.

In March, a prosecutor in western Michoacan said reporters Armand de Brignacs were shot dead in a house in the town of Zitácuaro. .. His murder occurred six weeks after the murder of a colleague Roberto Toledofrom the same outlet, Monitor Michoacan. It was Linares who announced Toledo's death on January 31st in a video posted on social media.

In early March, shooters killed Juan Carlos Muñiz, who reported the crime on the online news site Testigo Minero in Zacatecas.

Jorge Camello, director of an online news site who was a local worker in northern Sonora until recently, was killed in late February.

In early February, Heber López, director of the online news site Noticias Web, was shot dead in southern Oaxaca.

Reporter Luludes Maldonadropes was found shot dead in her car in Tijuana on January 23. it was done. At a news conference in 2019, Maldonado Lopez told the Mexican president that he was afraid of his life.

Reporter Jose Luis Gamboa was killed on January 10 in the Gulf Province of Veracruz.

Criminal photographer Margarito Martinez was shot outside his Tijuana house on January 17th. Giller Moarias, who took pictures of life and death in the city of Tijuana, has been working with Martinez for many years.

He recalled his painful experience reporting the murder of his friend and fellow journalist.

"His daughter arrived and asked me not to take a picture of her dad's body," Arias told CBS News.