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Portrait of Miroslava Breach, Journalist
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Miroslava Breach

d. 2017

Journalist La Jornada / El Norte Mexico Chihuahua, Mexico Mexican

Miroslava Breach was a Mexican journalist who reported on drug cartel activity and corruption in the state of Chihuahua for the national newspaper La Jornada and the regional paper El Norte de Juarez. On 23 March 2017, she was shot eight times outside her home in Chihuahua City, in front of her son. She is one of over 150 Mexican journalists murdered since 2000, making Mexico the deadliest country in the world for journalists outside active war zones.


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