Three journalists slain in Mexico in a week

Two journalists were shot dead in Mexico Friday, bringing to three the number of journalists killed in the country this week. Jorge Celestino Ruiz, who worked for the newspaper El Grafico de Xalapa, was killed on Friday night. Ruiz's house was shot at in October and bullets were also "fired at his vehicle to intimidate him," said a police source.

The shooting occurred less than 24 hours after the director of online news website was gunned down in the southern state of Guerrero. And on Tuesday, the body of Rogelio Barragan, head of news website was discovered in an abandoned car's trunk in the State of Morelos. Reporters without Borders said eight journalists had been killed in Mexico this year up until Thursday. Since 2000, around 100 reporters have been killed in the country. Violence linked to drug trafficking and political corruption is rampant, and most crimes go unpunished.