Journalist Gunned Down in Southern Mexico

OAXACA, Mexico – A journalist who hosted a radio program in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca was fatally shot Thursday, authorities said.

Filadelfo Sanchez was killed around 9:30 a.m. as he left the studios of La Favorita radio in the municipality of Miahuatlan de Porfirio Diaz, the state Attorney General’s Office said.

Police began a search for the perpetrators as investigators and forensic technicians went to the crime scene to collect evidence, the AG’s office said in a statement.

Miahuatlan was among the Oaxaca towns that experienced unrest during the days leading up to the June 7 mid-term elections, when striking teachers and their supporters burned ballots and attacked the offices of political parties.

Another radio newscaster in Oaxaca, Armando Saldaña Morales, was kidnapped in May and found dead two days later. His body bore signs of torture.

Mexico has become Latin America’s most dangerous country for the practice of journalism.