{"id":31855,"date":"2012-01-10T15:15:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31855"},"modified":"2012-01-10T15:15:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:15:29","slug":"mexico-journalist-killed-by-armed-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31855","title":{"rendered":"Mexico: Journalist killed by armed gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Mexico\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican<\/a> journalist has <a title=\"Knight Center : Mexico, journalism's most dangerous country, starts 2012 with the killing of a reporter in Nuevo Le\u00f3n\" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/mexico-journalisms-most-dangerous-country-starts-2012-killing-reporter-nuevo-leon\" target=\"_blank\">been murdered<\/a> by an armed gang during a high-speed car chase.\u00a0Ra\u00fal R\u00e9gulo Garza Quirino, from\u00a0local weekly newspaper La \u00daltima Palabra, in Nuevo Le\u00f3n, was killed as he tried to escape the bullets of an armed gang who were firing at him from two\u00a0pursuing vehicles. Quirino&#8217;s body was <a title=\"Eurasia Review : Mexico: Reporter Gunned Down In Los Zetas Stronghold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/10012012-mexico-reporter-gunned-down-in-los-zetas-stronghold\/\" target=\"_blank\">discovered<\/a> in front of a mechanic shop, owned by a relative. Quirino is the first journalist to be killed in Mexico in 2012. In 2011, the country was named\u00a0the world&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freemedia.at\/regions\/americas-caribbean\/singleview\/article\/new-deadly-trends-for-journalists-in-2011-103-killed.html\" target=\"blank\">most dangerous<\/a> country to practice journalism, by\u00a0the International Press Institute (IPI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mexican journalist has been murdered by an armed gang during a high-speed car chase.\u00a0Ra\u00fal R\u00e9gulo Garza Quirino, from\u00a0local weekly newspaper La \u00daltima Palabra, in Nuevo Le\u00f3n, was killed as he tried to escape the bullets of an armed gang who were firing at him from two\u00a0pursuing vehicles. Quirino&#8217;s body was discovered in front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[744,584,585],"tags":[346,7373,727,4175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31866,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855\/revisions\/31866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}