His phone rang, but Mexican newspaper reporter Candido Rios Vazquez didn’t answer.
On the other end was his boss, editor Cecilio Perez Cortes, who wanted to know whether his star crime writer could cover a deadly shooting in a small town near Mexico’s Gulf Coast.
Rios, it turned out, wasn’t answering because he was one of the victims.
The 57-year-old, who was enrolled in a government program to protect journalists after years chronicling corruption in one of the deadliest countries for reporters, was one of three people killed in Tuesday’s shooting in Veracruz state. ...
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