Journalist Hamurabi Huesca Manzano killed in Mexico’s Oaxaca

A journalist moonlighting as a taxi driver has been shot dead in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, the ninth killed in the country this year, according to human rights organisation Article 19. Hamurabi Huesca Manzano, who owned the news website Pinotepa Comunica, was killed on Friday after an armed group opened fire on him and two others, according to the state prosecutor’s report. The office said one line of inquiry suggests that a dispute happened between local criminal groups, and that the intended target of the shooting was a man known as “El Dario”. El Dario, infamous for instigating violence on the Oaxaca coast, was wounded in the shooting and died in hospital hours later.