MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Gunmen executed two sons of two prominent Mexican journalists in the northern city of Chihuahua, a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office said yesterday, and police found seven bodies dumped in a Mexico City suburb.
Alfredo Paramo, 20, and Diego Paramo, 21, were shot dead in Chihuahua early on Saturday after being chased through the streets by gunmen in a car, said spokesman Carlos Gonzalez.
They are the sons of well-known Mexican financial journalist David Paramo, who hosts a radio show, appears on TV Azteca and has a national newspaper column, and Martha Gonzalez, the editor of the local El Peso newspaper.
“We still don’t know what they were doing there,” Carlos Gonzalez said. “But this has nothing to do with the professional activities of their parents.”
Mexican journalists are often targeted and killed by drug cartels for reporting on their activities. The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based advocacy group, says 25 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 1992.
In a separate incident, authorities found seven bodies dumped in a car in a Mexico City suburb yesterday morning, a local police official said.
Two of the men were found naked. Police have identified three of the men, who ranged in ages from 14 to 42, the official said.
It appeared all seven men, who were found in the suburb of Ecatepec, had been shot, the official said.
