A journalist was fatally shot in the Mexican beach resort town of Playa del Carmen, state prosecutors said on Tuesday, less than a month after he complained of being beaten and threatened by local police.<\/p>\n
Gunmen opened fire on Ruben Pat, 42, founder of website Playa News, in the early hours of Tuesday outside a bar near the beach, prosecutors from the state of Quintana Roo said in a statement. The bar was not within any of the area\u2019s many resorts.<\/p>\n
Pat covered security matters and had been receiving threats for the past six months, according to one of his colleagues, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of facing reprisals.<\/p>\n
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in June that Pat had told them that month he was assaulted by municipal police officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey told me to stop publishing articles about a local police chief, and that I knew what would be coming to me if I didn\u2019t,\u201d Pat said, according to the CPJ.<\/p>\n
Police in the municipality of Solidaridad, which includes Playa del Carmen, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Quintana Roo, which is home to the resort city of Cancun, was long one of Mexico\u2019s safest states, but security has deteriorated as gangs fight to control lucrative drug markets.<\/p>\n
At least seven other journalists have died violently in Mexico this year, according to data supplied by various non-governmental organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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