Free speech is under attack in one of Latin America's oldest democracies, and Rubén is the 14th journalist killed in the southern state of Veracruz where governor Javier Duarte has made open threats against reporters. Almost none of these crimes have been solved.
Mexico now ranks as one of the deadliest countries in the world to be a journalist, on par with war-torn nations like Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. And since President Enrique Peña Nieto assumed power, attacks on the media have risen by 80 percent.
In June, Rubén Espinosa told fellow reporters that recently he was being followed and menaced by men in government secu