Journalist Gerardo Torres Rentería is shot to death in Acapulco (Mexico)

The journalist Gerardo Torres Rentería was shot to death on Wednesday night in Acapulco, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, the organization Alianza de Medios has reported..

“This day the murder of Gerardo Torres Rentería, who was a correspondent for Reuters and TV Azteca, was confirmed,” the organization reported on its networks.. They detailed that the attack occurred in the Icacos neighborhood, in the port of Acapulco, and that Torres Rentería had also been a correspondent for Telemundo.

They kill the journalist Gerardo Torres Rentería, in Acapulco https://t.co/CV30bhD70Q

– Mx Media Alliance (@AlianzaMediosMx) May 12, 2023

Confirmation of the link between the crime and his journalistic work is still pending, Torres Rentería would be the second journalist murdered in Mexico so far in 2023. On February 12, the journalist and human rights activist and environmentalist Abisaí Pérez Romero was assassinated in Tula, in the central state of Hidalgo..

In 2022, Mexico was listed as the most dangerous “country at peace” for the press, concentrating 20% of the murders of journalists in the world, with 13 cases, according to the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF)..

According to the organization Article 19, a total of 157 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000 in possible connection with their work.. Of these, 37 have occurred during the current term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office on December 1, 2018..