Mexican journalist Fredy Lopez shot and killed in San Cristobal de las Casas

[Judi Lynn]

November 3, 2021 10:59 AM EDT

Mexico City, November 3, 2021 – Mexican authorities must conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the killing of reporter Fredy Fernando López Arévalo, determine whether he was targeted for his work, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

At about 8 p.m. on October 28, an unidentified man approached López outside his home in the city of San Cristobal de las Casas, in the southern state of Chiapas, and shot him several times, killing him at the scene, according to news reports and a statement by the Chiapas state prosecutor’s office.

López had a long career as a reporter and editor in Mexico and Central America, according to a biography published on the news website Noticiero Agencia 3, which said he had been a correspondent for newspapers Novedades and El Universal, as well as a Central America bureau chief for Mexico’s state news agency Notimex.

More recently, López published news and commentary on social media and in Jovel, a local magazine that has ceased circulation, according to the journalist’s brother, Jorge López, who spoke to CPJ in a phone interview. Jorge López told CPJ that the reporter returned from celebrating his mother’s birthday in the Chiapas capital of Tuxtla Gutiérrez when he was attacked.

More:
https://cpj.org/2021/11/mexican-journalist-fredy-lopez-shot-and-killed-in-san-cristobal-de-las-casas/





Rest in Peace,

Fredy López.