Murdered in Mexico: the final interview with a legendary journalist

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Margarito Martínez Esquivel was Tijuana’s best-known street-level police and crime photojournalist – a local legend who covered killings, car crashes and natural disasters.
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Then, at lunchtime on 17 January 2022, as the 49-year-old set off from his home, he was murdered. He is one of at least eight Mexican journalists to have been killed this year. Before he died, Emilio Espejel, a local film-maker, profiled his work.

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19 Comments

  1. What a tragic story. But him and other men and women like him are hero and will never be forgotten for what they did.

  2. My heart and prayers go for all the people who got caught in these mishappenings. Journalism in such a violent place requires quite a lot of guts. R.I.P

  3. Journalists need to stop seeing this as a war zone. It's much more dangerous than that. In a war zone soldiers want publicity, in Mexico if you call attention to someone you'll be killed.

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