International organizations in defense of freedom of expression demanded that the Mexican State carry out a “prompt, exhaustive, independent and impartial” investigation after confirming the murder of the informant Francisco Alejandro Leyva Aguilar, the seventh journalist murdered so far this year in the country. In a statement, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demanded the intervention of the federal government to clarify the facts, as well as “a public explanation of the failures of the institutions that were aware of the risk situation in which the journalist found himself.” The murder The communicator's incident occurred in a municipality in Oaxaca, where he was attacked by armed men while he was at a food stand, according to local media.

Received death threatsRSF explained that Leyva Aguilar went last year to the Oaxaca Human Rights Ombudsman's Office to file a complaint after receiving death threats. “Leyva attributed that campaign to the state government and publicly held the governor responsible for any harm he may suffer,” the organization said.

On the other hand, the NGO Article 19 joined the condemnation of the crime and asked the authorities “to consider the journalistic work” of the victim as a line of investigation. With this latest crime, there are already seven journalists murdered in Mexico in 2026, according to RSF, which defines Mexico as the “most lethal” to carry out journalistic work on the entire continent for at least 15 years. Last week another journalist died in an armed attack in the state of Puebla, while at the beginning of July the authorities confirmed the murder of an informant in Veracruz, Roxana Guzmán, who had been missing for about a month. Guzmán's case shocked the country after she was kidnapped from her home, as captured by security cameras, and the video was spread on social networks.

With information from EFE.