Mexico City, July 9, 2026—Mexican authorities must immediately and credibly investigate the killing of environmental journalist and content creator Manuel Alejandro Mora Serna and determine whether he was attacked in relation to his work as a reporter, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday.

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“The shocking killing of Alex Serna is the third of a Mexican journalist in less than a month, underscoring Mexico’s abysmal status as the most dangerous country for the press in the western hemisphere”, said Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico Representative. “Once again Mexican authorities must show that they are willing and able to end the cycle of violence and impunity that continues to plague the nation’s press.”

Alejandro Serna, known locally as Alex, combined work as a content creator, investigative journalist and environmental activist out of Zihuatanejo, a coastal city popular with tourists in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, according to the news reports. He published mainly on his personal pages on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, where he had a combined total of almost 200,000 followers.

An official at the federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, which coordinates protection programs for journalists at risk supervised by the Mexican federal government, confirmed to CPJ on July 10 that Serna had not been incorporated in a protection program by his agency. The official asked not to be named to be able to comment on the matter.