Ricardo Sánchez Pérez del Pozo, the Federal Special Prosecutor for Attention to Crimes against Freedom of Expression, expressed that his office had opened a case file for the murder to determine whether it was related to the victim's work as a journalist. The Honduran consul in Mexico asks the state prosecutor to investigate and to not let the crime go unpunished. The situation is almost as dangerous as Rivera's native Honduras, where 69 journalists have been killed since 2003. More journalists have been murdered in Veracruz than the rest of Mexico it is now the deadliest region for media in the Western hemisphere. Paz was the seventh journalist killed this year in Mexico, where more than 100 reporters have been murdered since 2000. It is not immediately clear exactly how long Rivera had been in Acayucan before his death the town lies on a heavily used route for migrants fleeing violence who are preyed on by organized crime groups. Soon after Padilla's murder, Rivera fled his home country for Acayucan in fear for his life. Padilla had covered crime and also hosted the humorous television show "Los Verduleros", which Rivera was the cameraman for. The men who murdered Padilla are suspected members of Mara 18. Igor Padilla, a colleague of Rivera's, was shot in January by four men wearing police uniforms in the northern Honduras city of San Pedro Sula. Īt the time of Rivera's murder, he had been living in southern Veracruz for several months, seeking political asylum to the Mexican Aid Commission To Refugees (COMAR). Rivera's half-brother identified his body after the attack. While in Acayucan, two unidentified assailants on a motorcycle chased Rivera for several blocks, beat and then repeatedly shot him on the afternoon of July 9, 2017, at approximately 2 in the afternoon. In late January 2017, Rivera fled Honduras for Acayucan after his colleague, Padilla, was murdered in San Pedro Sula. Death Ĭlass=notpageimage| Acayucan is in Mexico and shown relative to the capital Mexico City. While Rivera lived in Acayucan, he worked on an independent project about the challenges Central American migrants and refugees faced in Mexico, which included organized crime group violence Rivera was making photo and video reports about the lives of other refugees in the city. Rivera and his colleague Igor Padilla worked together on the comedy program Los Verduleros at the television station Hable Como Habla (HCH). Īt the time of his murder, Rivera resided in southern Veracruz seeking political asylum out of fear for his life. Life and career Įdwin Rivera Paz lived with his half-brother, Pablo Rivera Cabrera, in the San Diego neighborhood, near Mexican Federal Highway 185 that connects Minatitlán and Coatzacoalcos. Rivera received several death threats in his home country not long before he was murdered. 1989 – July 9, 2017), was a Honduran journalist living in southern Veracruz, Mexico who worked as the lead cameraman for the Honduran television program "Los Verduleros" on Hable Como Habla, who died in Acayucan, Veracruz, Mexico from multiple gunshot wounds from two unidentified assailants on a motorcycle with no known motives in broad daylight.
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