Another journalist, Jose Ignacio Santiago, was attacked in Mexico on Wednesday after three other journalists have been killed this month.
Santiago stated that he narrowly escaped when a car carrying armed assailants tried to cut his vehicle off on a rural road in southern Oaxaca. He was able to escape by being in the company of two bodyguards that were assigned to him under a government program to protect journalists. Santiago was assigned the bodyguards after he was abducted by a gang in 2017.
The bodyguard driving was able to outmaneuver the attackers, according to Santiago. The assailants opened fire when they saw the car escaping, but Santiago was not injured. Santiago had been taping video in a Triqui Indigenous area, which may have upset one of the groups battling for control of the region.
