A translation of an article by Olga Alicia Aragón that was published in La Jornada on March 25, 2017
Miroslava Breach Velducea was murdered in cold blood; eight shots fired at her by a professional murderer, in a calculated act of extreme violence. His action deeply wounded the best journalism of Chihuahua and showed the seriousness of the breakdown of a state that bleeds from the impunity with which the corrupt and the criminal have acted for years.
It is not the death of one journalist. It is the death of our society, which has gradually gotten used to the killing of its best people, silencing them in many different ways. As the writer Carlos Lazcano put it, expressing his heartfelt condolences “for you, for me, for the Miroslava family, for all who love justice and truth, for all that we want in this country.”
There were many bullets, clearly intended to send a written message in blood and fire.
Eight shots, too, to mow down a woman who wielded critical journalism with great neatness, armed only with her intelligence, her professional ethics, and the power of words.
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