29 October 2024 | RSF
Online media director Mauricio Cruz Solís shot in Michoacán
Shooting
He was only 25 years old. Mauricio Cruz Solís, director of the digital media Minuto x Minuto and presenter of the news programme "La Poderosa Uruapan" (“The Powerful Uruapan”) on the local radio station Radiorama, was brutally shot dead in the centre of the municipality of Uruapan, in the western Mexican state of Michoacán, on Tuesday 29 October.
According to official reports, the murder took place a few minutes after the journalist had broadcast live on his social networks an interview with the town's mayor, Carlos Manzo. Mauricio was covering issues relating to public safety and local politics. The Michoacán Attorney General's Office publicly announced that an investigation had been opened into the case.
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