Israel Vázquez Rangel

Year: 2020

Nationality: Mexico

Killed by: Criminal Group

Location: Salamanca, Mexico

Press organization: El Salmantino

What's Israel Vázquez Rangel's story?

In the morning of November 9, 2020, in the central Mexican city of Salamanca, unidentified individuals shot and killed Israel Vázquez Rangel, a reporter for the El Salmantino news website, while he was reporting from a crime scene, according to news reports and El Salmantino editor Victor Ortega, who spoke to CPJ in a phone interview.

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