Lourdes Maldonado, immersed in a labor conflict, feared for her life
The Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado was ” murdered ” this Sunday night in Tijuana , state of Baja California (northwest), less than a week after the murder of another journalist in the same town , according to the regional prosecutor’s office in a statement. Maldonado has “been attacked with a firearm , while she was in a vehicle,” the report detailed. The events took place a few days after the murder , also in Tijuana, of photojournalist Margarito Martínez, contributor to the weekly Zeta and foreign media. Martínez’s body was found next to a vehicle in a residential area of this city bordering the United States.
Lourdes Maldonado worked as a correspondent in Tijuana from the nineties for a Mexican media outlet. He later collaborated in various media, including First News System (PSN), by Jaime Bonilla, who was governor of Baja-California from 2019 to 2021. The victim had won a labor lawsuit against PSN a few days ago for abusive dismissal . Maldonado went in 2019 to one of the morning conferences of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to ask him for help in the labor trial against Jaime Bonilla. “I come here to ask you for support, help and labor justice because I fear for my life,” he said on this occasion.