![]() | You can help expand this article with text translated from
the corresponding article in Spanish. (January 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
María de Lourdes Maldonado López (11 February 1969 – 23 January 2022) was a Mexican journalist.
Maldonado López was born on 11 February 1969 in Gómez Palacio, Durango, and studied economics at the Autonomous University of Baja California. [1] Throughout her career, Maldonado López had worked at several Mexican media outlets including Primer Sistema de Noticias, which is owned by former Baja California Governor Jaime Bonilla. [2]
Maldonado López had been involved in a years-long labor dispute with PSN and Bonilla after suing the company for unfair dismissal and unpaid wages. Maldonado López was asking for more than $20,000 in back pay. [2]
She asked Andrés Manuel López Obrador for protection at a press conference in 2019. [3]
In January 2022, she won a lawsuit. [4] Days later, on 23 January, she was shot and killed in a red Hyundai Atos vehicle in front of her home in Tijuana. [5] [6] She was the third of four journalists killed in Mexico in January 2022, in what was reportedly the most violent month for journalists since 2011. [7]
The killing of Lourdes Maldonado Lopez [8] was condemned by the Director-General of the UNESCO Audrey Azoulay in a press-release published on the 26th of January. [9] [10]
![]() | You can help expand this article with text translated from
the corresponding article in Spanish. (January 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
María de Lourdes Maldonado López (11 February 1969 – 23 January 2022) was a Mexican journalist.
Maldonado López was born on 11 February 1969 in Gómez Palacio, Durango, and studied economics at the Autonomous University of Baja California. [1] Throughout her career, Maldonado López had worked at several Mexican media outlets including Primer Sistema de Noticias, which is owned by former Baja California Governor Jaime Bonilla. [2]
Maldonado López had been involved in a years-long labor dispute with PSN and Bonilla after suing the company for unfair dismissal and unpaid wages. Maldonado López was asking for more than $20,000 in back pay. [2]
She asked Andrés Manuel López Obrador for protection at a press conference in 2019. [3]
In January 2022, she won a lawsuit. [4] Days later, on 23 January, she was shot and killed in a red Hyundai Atos vehicle in front of her home in Tijuana. [5] [6] She was the third of four journalists killed in Mexico in January 2022, in what was reportedly the most violent month for journalists since 2011. [7]
The killing of Lourdes Maldonado Lopez [8] was condemned by the Director-General of the UNESCO Audrey Azoulay in a press-release published on the 26th of January. [9] [10]