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May 17, 2019

Mexican Journalist Francisco Romero Killed in Playa del Carmen
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In Mexico, police said Thursday they discovered the body of journalist
Francisco Romero outside a bar in the Caribbean coastal city of Playa
del Carmen. Romero's body reportedly showed signs of repeated blows and
a gunshot wound, making him the sixth Mexican journalist to be murdered
this year. Romero previously worked for a Facebook news page where two
other journalists - Rubén Pat and José Guadalupe - were murdered last
year.


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