Authorities are investigating the death of a journalist who was shot and killed in Michoacan state as violence against media workers in Mexico surges, drawing international criticism.
Armando Linares Lopez was killed in a private residence and suffered gunshot wounds, the state prosecutor’s office said on Twitter. A local journalists’ group said he was murdered in front of his children, and criticized the government for failing to protect him, according to the El Sol de Morelia newspaper.
