Javier Valdez Cárdenas

Year: 2017

Nationality: Mexico

Killed by: Criminal Group

Location: Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico

Press organization: Ríodoce,La Jornada

What's Javier Valdez Cárdenas's story?

Investigative reporter and editor Javier Valdez Cárdenas was fatally shot on May 15, 2017, near the editorial offices of Riodoce, the investigative weekly he co-founded in 2003 in the northern Mexican city of Culiacán. He was 50 years old.

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