Lourdes Maldonado López

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Maldonado and the second or maternal family name is López.

María de Lourdes Maldonado López (11 February 1969 – 23 January 2022) was a Mexican journalist.

Life and career

Maldonado López was born on 11 February 1969 in Gómez Palacio, Durango, and studied economics at the Autonomous University of Baja California.[1] Throughout her career, Maldonado López had worked at several Mexican media outlets including Primer Sistema de Noticias, which is owned by former Baja California Governor Jaime Bonilla.[2]

Maldonado López had been involved in a years-long labor dispute with PSN and Bonilla after suing the company for unfair dismissal and unpaid wages. Maldonado López was asking for more than $20,000 in back pay.[2]

She asked Andrés Manuel López Obrador for protection at a press conference in 2019.[3]

In January 2022, she won a lawsuit.[4] Days later, on 23 January, she was shot and killed in a red Hyundai Atos vehicle in front of her home in Tijuana.[5][6] She was the third of four journalists killed in Mexico in January 2022, in what was reportedly the most violent month for journalists since 2011.[7]

The killing of Lourdes Maldonado Lopez[8] was condemned by the Director-General of the UNESCO Audrey Azoulay in a press-release published on the 26th of January.[9][10]

References

1. "¿Quién era Lourdes Maldonado, periodista asesinada en Tijuana?". El Imparcial (in Spanish). 24 January 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
2. Campione, Katie (25 January 2022). "Slain Journalist's Dog Seen Lying Outside Her Home Seemingly Waiting for Her in Heartbreaking Images". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
3. "Asesinan a Lourdes Maldonado, la periodista que pidió protección a AMLO en una rueda de prensa". abc (in Spanish). 24 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
4. Karol Suarez and David von Blohn. "Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado López, who feared for her life, killed in Tijuana". CNN. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
5. "Mexico violence: Third journalist killed this year". BBC News. 24 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
6. "Slain Journalist's Dog Seen Lying Outside Her Home Seemingly Waiting for Her in Heartbreaking Images". www.msn.com. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
7. "Mexican journalists shocked with surge in targeted killings". BBC News. 5 February 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
8. "'Ongoing brutality': Lourdes Maldonado third journalist killed in Mexico in less than a month". Committee to Protect Journalists. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
9. "Director-General denounces murder of journalist Lourdes Maldonado Lopez in Mexico". UNESCO. 26 January 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
10. "Observatory of Killed Journalists". UNESCO. Retrieved 18 June 2023.