(30 Oct 2024)
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Uruapan, Mexico – 30 October 2024
1. Mourners carrying coffin of killed journalist Mauricio Solís
2. Loved ones crying, hugging each other next to hearse
3. Mourners loading coffin into hearse
4. People applauding by hearse
5. Pan of hearse driving away
6. Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo
7. Armed police guarding site of murder
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan:
"Mr. Mauricio Solis, may he rest in peace, approached me, I gave him an interview, and about a minute and a half, two minutes later, about halfway across the square, we heard the gunshots."
9. Various of candle tribute to Solís at site of murder
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Lucero Estrada, journalist:
"Those of us who work on the streets every day woke up today with fear, feeling very bad mentally, but we must have some resilience to get through this because we cannot let ourselves be overcome by fear or stop reporting."
11. Priest raising chalice during funeral mass
12. Mourners attending mass
13. Mourners and priest by coffin
14. Police guarding church
STORYLINE:
Loved ones and colleagues mourned Wednesday a murdered journalist whose Facebook news page covered the violent western Mexico state of Michoacan.
Mauricio Solís of the online journal Minuto por Minuto was shot to death by gunmen late Tuesday, just moments after he conducted a sidewalk interview with the mayor of the city of Uruapan.
State prosecutors said a second person was wounded in the shooting.
Following the killing, the U.N. human rights office in Mexico said journalists in Mexico need more protection.
Solís had just finished an interview on the street outside city hall with Mayor Carlos Manzo.
Manzo said he could not rule out a connection between the interview and the killing.
The U.N. rights office said Solís was at least the fifth journalist killed in Mexico this year and said journalists in Mexico need more protection.
It said he had previously reported security problems related to his work.
His Facebook page reported on community events and the drug cartel violence that has wracked the city.
An increasing number of the journalists killed in Mexico have been self-employed and reported for local Facebook and online news sites.
Uruapan is the nearest large city to Michoacan’s avocado-growing region, and it has been the scene of drug cartel extortions and turf battles between gangs.
The cartels demand protection money from local avocado and lime orchards, cattle ranches and almost any other business.
Solís was reporting on a suspicious fire at a local market just before the shooting.
Gangs have sometimes burned businesses that refuse to pay extortion demands.
AP video shot by Armando Solís
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