Mario Vargas Llosa: murder of Mexican journalists is due to press freedom

• Nobel prize-winning novelist causes outrage with comments
• More than 100 journalists killed in Mexico in past decade

Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has provoked outrage in Mexico by saying that the murder of more than 100 journalists in Mexico over the past decade was due to an expansion of press freedom.

“There is more press freedom in Mexico today than 20 years ago, without doubt,” he said in an interview on Monday.

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