So far this year, the eighth reporter has died in Mexico.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Journalist Armando Linares (Armando Linares) was shot and killed Tuesday in a town in western Mexico, considered the most violent in Mexican media in decades I became the eighth journalist in one year.

Linares, director of Michoacán, a monitor of the news portal, was shot in the town of Chitacuaro, in the state of Michoacán. The death of the reporter was confirmed to the PA by a spokesman for the Michoacán prosecutor's office. Michoacán said the authorities had already launched a corresponding investigation.

Linares died less than two months after the murder of Roberto Toledo, an employee of the monitor Michoacán, who was shot dead in Zitaquaro on January 31. At the time, Linares said he received several death threats from the PA and received protection from the police after entering the federal protection mechanism.

Earlier this month, a gunman killed Juan Carlos Muniz, a police intelligence reporter for the Zacatecas news portal Witness Minero.

The murder of Muniz occurred a few days after Jorge Camero, the head of the news portal, died in a shooting, and until a few days before his death, he was the personal secretary of the mayor of the state of Sonora, which borders the United States. In February, the murder of Heber López, the head of the web news portal, was also recorded in the southern state of Oaxaca.

Toledo, camera operator and video editor of Monitor Michoacán, was filmed while preparing for the interview. A few days ago, on January 23, journalist Lourdes Maldonado López died in a car in the border city of Tijuana. Photographer Margarito Martinez was photographed a week ago. Journalist José Luis Gamboa died on January 10 in the state of Veracruz, in the Gulf of Mexico.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken expressed concern about the murder of a journalist in Mexico in February, and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was not informed by senior officials I insisted that it was. López Obrador seems to be criticizing Mexico's efforts to investigate these crimes and protect journalists.

According to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, an activist media protection agency based in New York, Mexico, it is the most violent country in the Western Hemisphere when it comes to journalism practice. According to their data, nine journalists died throughout the country in 2021.

The difficulty of revealing the killings of journalists and activists is a serious problem in Mexico, and as Alejandro Encinas, Deputy Minister of Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior admitted in December, that of such cases He admitted that the punishment exceeds 90%.