Rubén Pat Cauich Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

A member of the press hangs pictures of colleagues during a protest against the murder or disappearance of journalists in Mexico in front of the National Palace in Mexico City on June 1, 2018. Mexican cameraman Javier Enrique Rodríguez Valladares was killed in Cancún, in the southern state of Quintana Roo, on August 29. (AFP/Yuri Cortez)

Mexican cameraman killed in Quintana Roo

August 30, 2018 7:23 PM EDT

Mexico City, August 30, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Mexican authorities to undertake an immediate and credible investigation into the killing of Javier Enrique Rodríguez Valladares, a cameraman for a local television broadcaster based in Cancún, in the southern Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Rodríguez Valladares was shot by unknown assailants around 6:00 p.m.…

Mexican journalist and media owner killed in Quintana Roo

July 25, 2018 5:37 PM EDT

Mexico City, July 25, 2018–Authorities in the southern Mexican state of Quintana Roo must undertake a swift, credible, and exhaustive investigation into the murder of journalist and media owner Rubén Pat Cauich. Pat was shot to death by an unknown attacker on July 24 in a bar in the coastal resort city of Playa del…