They kill journalist and a mechanic

Honduran journalist Luz Marina Paz and a mechanic who accompanied her were killed Tuesday shot by gunmen in the South West of Tegucigalpa, periphery so 17 joined the journalists murdered in this country since 2010, reported the police.

The Communicator had recently finished work for the radio Globo, akin to the ousted former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, and played on the radio chain Hondureña de News (CHN).

"She was testing a car was going to sell a Colonel, Leiva port, and a few thugs from a motorbike shot him," said the spokesman of the Ministry of security, Héctor Mejía.

The police spokesman added that they are handling several hypotheses about the crime, "if it was by the same car he was testing or if the mechanic had trouble" with someone. However, not do not preclude the possibility that crime has politically motivated or related to the work u000ainformative of the Communicator

"Crimes are awarded to personal problems or crime (the police) but the problem is that we investigate, there is impunity, the State does not guarantee the life and the exercise of journalism and democratic freedoms," said the Chairman of the Committee for free expression (c-Libre), Osman Lopez.

"Are 17 journalists killed (since 2010) and there is no investigation." "Yesterday was (the newspaper) La Tribuna suffered an attack and today killed another journalist", added López.

The latest victim had been Medardo Flores, shot on September 8 in Puerto Cortés (Caribbean), although he worked on the Radio one of San Pedro Sula and was responsible for Finance of the opponent Frente Amplio of Popular Resistance (zelayista) in the North of the country.

A high rate of homicide
Honduras is located between the countries with higher rate of homicides in the world (82.1 for every 100,000) u000a(population), according to the first global survey of killings of the United Nations Office on drugs and crime (UNODC) disclosed in October and found 207 countries. Luz Marina Paz journalist had a program in the zelayista radio Globo, which was funded by herself, but he cancelled about six months ago, arguing that not he could keep it by the high cost of space and the low income in advertising, whereupon he switched to the CHN.

Recently, the Government itself has acknowledged that the security agencies are seriously infiltrated by the mafia and that entire bodies of the police are linked to the kidnapping, the hired killers, drug trafficking and the theft of cars, among other crimes. To counter crime, President Porfirio Lobo intends to declare a State of emergency to join the military to work typically police.

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