Journalist Hamurabi Huesca Manzano killed in Mexico’s Oaxaca

RIGHT SO CONTEXT FIRST BECAUSE IT MATTERS PEOPLE KEEP MESSING UP THE DETAILS BUT HAMURABI HUESCA MANZANO WHO RAN PINOTEPA COMUNICA WAS JUST KILLED IN OAXACA MEXICO WHILE WORKING HIS TAXI JOB AND THE PROSECUTORS SAY HE WAS CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE DURING A SHOOTOUT TARGETING A GUY CALLED EL DARIO WHO DIED IN THE HOSPITAL LATER. ARTICLE 19 SAYS THIS IS THE NINTH JOURNALIST KILLED IN MEXICO THIS YEAR WHICH IS A TRAGIC NUMBER AND THE AUTHORITIES CLAIM THE ATTACKERS ARE IDENTIFIED BUT THEY HAVE NOT RELEASED NAMES OR CLARIFIED IF HIS REPORTING HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE SHOOTING AT ALL. IT IS A HORRIBLE SITUATION AND THE FACTS ABOUT THE LOCATION ARE STILL ALL OVER THE PLACE. THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF AND I AM NOT GOING TO JOKE ABOUT IT.

THIS IS THE KIND OF THING THAT KEEPS ME UP BECAUSE IT IS SO MESSY AND SAD. A JOURNALIST IN OAXACA NAMED HAMURABI HUESCA MANZANO WAS SHOT DEAD WHILE DRIVING A TAXI AND THE STATE PROSECUTOR SAYS AN ARMED GROUP WAS ACTUALLY GOING AFTER SOMEONE ELSE CALLED EL DARIO. APPARENTLY EL DARIO WAS KNOWN FOR VIOLENCE ON THE COAST AND HE ENDED UP DYING IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER THE ATTACK. IT IS THE NINTH JOURNALIST KILLED IN MEXICO THIS YEAR ACCORDING TO ARTICLE 19 AND WHILE THE PROSECUTORS CLAIM THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED THE ATTACKERS THEY ARE NOT TELLING US WHO THEY ARE OR IF HUESCA MANZANO WAS TARGETED FOR HIS WORK OR JUST CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A DISPUTE BETWEEN CRIMINAL GROUPS. ANYWAY REMIND ME TO LOOK THIS UP TOMORROW.

Journalist and taxi driver Hamurabi Huesca Manzano was killed in Oaxaca, Mexico, in a shooting that authorities believe targeted a different individual, marking the ninth journalist killed this year.

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