Jose Luis Gamboa, 10thenero, Margarito Hernandez-Squivel, 17th of January, I Juana.

Those names you just heard, they were Mexican journalists, and the dates, the days that they were murdered.

Rallies like this one were held at more than three dozen cities across Mexico last month.

And the goal was to bring global attention to the journalist who work in one of the deadliest

countries on earth for members of the press.

Fellow reporters and supporters gathered to say, Basta, enough.

And look, this is how bad the situation is right now.

As we're recording this episode,

Roberto Toledo was gunned down on January 31st.

He contributed to a local news blog called Monitor Michoacan.

I'm Gustavo Arellano.

You're listening to The Times,

Daily News from the LA Times.

It's Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022.

The second, 22nd,

2020. Since 2000, nearly 150, dangerous country for journalists in the world was Mexico, and Mexico was last year the most dangerous.

Since 2000, nearly 150 Mexican journalists have been murdered while in the line of work.

That's according to the human rights group, Article 19.

It means that journalists, maybe local journalists doing their job, disturbed criminal activities

without knowing this.

Mexico trails just Syria and Iraq as the deadliest country in the world to be a news person.

That's according to the data collected from 2000 to 2022 by the Committee to Protect Journalists,

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