Journalist Killed in Mexico Was Threatened in Recent Weeks

Relatives of video-journalist Sheila Johana Garcia Olivera carry her coffin to her family's home for her wake in Minatitlan, near the Lazaro Cardenas oil refinery where gas burns in the background, in Veracruz state, Mexico, on May 10, 2022. Felix Marquez/AP Photo

The director of an online news site in southeast Mexico had been threatened in recent weeks over her journalism before being killed with a colleague, her brother said Tuesday.

Yessenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera, the director and a reporter, respectively, of the online news site El Veraz in Cosoleacaque were shot Monday afternoon while sitting in a vehicle parked outside a convenience store.