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Mexican Journalist Shot to Death

HeadlineApr 09, 2007

In Mexico, a correspondent from the country’s top television news network was shot to death in Acapulco on Friday. Amado Ramirez was attacked by two gunmen after he left his radio show. Ramirez had covered Acapulco for the Mexican network Televisa for more than a dozen years. The Miami-based Inter-American Press Association recently said Mexico has become the most dangerous place to be a journalist in the Western Hemisphere.

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