María de Lourdes Maldonado López (11 February 1969 – 23 January 2022) was a Mexican journalist.

Life and career

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]

References

  1. ↑ "¿Quién era Lourdes Maldonado, periodista asesinada en Tijuana?". El Imparcial (in Spanish). 24 January 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  2. 1 2 Campione, Katie (25 January 2022). "Slain Journalist's Dog Seen Lying Outside Her Home Seemingly Waiting for Her in Heartbreaking Images". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  3. ↑ "Asesinan a Lourdes Maldonado, la periodista que pidió protección a AMLO en una rueda de prensa". abc (in Spanish). 24 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  4. ↑ Karol Suarez and David von Blohn. "Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado López, who feared for her life, killed in Tijuana". CNN. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  5. ↑ "Mexico violence: Third journalist killed this year". BBC News. 24 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  6. ↑ "Slain Journalist's Dog Seen Lying Outside Her Home Seemingly Waiting for Her in Heartbreaking Images". www.msn.com. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  7. ↑ "Mexican journalists shocked with surge in targeted killings". BBC News. 5 February 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  8. ↑ "'Ongoing brutality': Lourdes Maldonado third journalist killed in Mexico in less than a month". Committee to Protect Journalists. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  9. ↑ "Director-General denounces murder of journalist Lourdes Maldonado Lopez in Mexico". UNESCO. 26 January 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  10. ↑ "Observatory of Killed Journalists". UNESCO. Retrieved 18 June 2023.


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