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    A Mexican reporter was in a program to protect journalists; he still was killed

    by By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times Aug 23, 2017 4 minutes

    MEXICO CITY _ His phone rang, but Mexican newspaper reporter Candido Rios Vazquez didn't answer.

    On the other end was his boss, editor Cecilio Perez Cortes, who wanted to know whether his star crime reporter could cover a deadly shooting in a small town on Mexico's Gulf Coast.

    Rios, it turned out, wasn't answering because he was one of the victims.

    The 57-year-old reporter, who was enrolled in a government program to protect journalists after years chronicling corruption in one of the deadliest countries for journalists, was one of three people killed in Tuesday's shooting in Veracruz state.

    Officials said Rios

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