10 July 2010
Marco Aurelio Martinez Tijerina and Guillermo Alcaraz Trejo
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Mexican journalists Marco Aurelio Martinez Tijerina and Guillermo Alcaraz Trejo were killed in separate incidents in the northern states of Chihuahua and Nuevo Leon.
Radio journalist Martinez, 45, was found dead Saturday in Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon, hours after he was snatched off the street by gunmen traveling in three vehicles, RSF said. Martinez was producer and host of a news program on regional broadcaster XEDD Radio La Tremenda, as well as a former correspondent for TV Azteca.
The 24-year-old Alcaraz, who oversaw the video section of the Web site of the Chihuahua human rights commission, was gunned down while leaving the Chihuahua city offices of the newspaper OMNIA. Alcaraz had gone to the "Omnia" offices to say hello to his former colleagues and was waiting for his girlfriend in his car outside the building when several people in a moving vehicle opened fire and shot him. It appeared that Alcaraz tried to start his car to escape but he quickly lost control and crashed into a tree. The assailants fired more than 40 rounds from AK-47 assault rifles. Marco Aurelio Martínez Tijerina, a journalist from Montemorelos, Nuevo León, was kidnapped on 9 July and was found dead the following day. He was the presenter of the radio show "Informativo 800" at XEDD Radio La Tremenda and was formerly the news director for XERN Radio Naranjera 950 AM and a correspondent for TV Azteca, Grupo Multimedios and W Radio.
