Honduras
TV host shot by unidentified gunmenPosted Apr 6 2010
Nahúm Palacios Arteaga, 34, a Channel 5 TV and host for a program on Radio Tocoa, was killed in his vehicle in Tocoa as he was driving home on March 14. Two unidentified gun pulled up to his car and fired several shots. Palacios has reported on drug trafficking, local politics and violence. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Arteaga received threats from military members in June 2009 for his coverage of a coup against President Manuel Zelaya.