23 January 2022 | CBS
Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado López shot and killed in Tijuana
Shooting
A journalist was killed Sunday January 23, the second in a week's time in the northern Mexico border city of Tijuana. Lourdes Maldonado López was found shot to death inside a car, according to a statement from the Baja California state prosecutor's office. Authorities had received a 911 call around 7 p.m. and found Maldonado dead on arrival.
In 2019, Maldonado came to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's daily morning news conference and asked for his support, help and labor justice. "Because I fear for my life," she said.
Maldonado had worked for several media outlets, including Primer Sistema de Noticias (PSN), which is owned by Jaime Bonilla, who was governor of Baja California from 2019 to the end of 2021.
Maldonado had been locked in a years-long labor dispute with Bonilla, who was elected governor of Baja California as a candidate from López Obrador's Morena party. Maldonado said she had not been paid wages due to her and called Bonilla a "powerful character" while asking the president for his support.
"I can't do anything without your help, Mr. President," she said at the press conference in 2019.
Maldonado had recently announced that she won her dispute with the media company Bonilla owned after nine years of litigation.
Maldonado had collaborated with many outlets, but recently was doing an internet, radio and television show, "Brebaje," focused on local news.
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