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Monday, March 15, 2010

A Honduran radio reporter becomes the second journalist gunned down in 12 days

It was less than two weeks ago that TV host Joseph Hernández Ochoa was killed while driving with radio reporter Carol Cabrera, who was the actual target of the assassins. Cabrera survived the shooting. The Committee to Protect Journalists reports just 12 days following that incident, Radio America reporter David Meza Montesinos was killed in a hail of gunfire by unknown assailants while driving in La Ceiba. It was reported that another vehicle pulled alongside Montesinos and someone opened fire. Montesinos was pronounced dead at the scene. His reporting coverage included drug trafficking and organized crime. Montesinos, who was 51, becomes the second Radio America reporter to be killed in the past nine months. The earlier murder of Gabriel Fino Noriega remains unsolved.

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