Journalist couple shot to death in Mexico

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Two more journalists have been killed in Mexico, a husband and wife in the southern state of Guerrero.

Juan Francisco Rios Rodriguez and Maria Elvira Hernandez were shot to death as they worked in an internet cafe that they owned in the town of Coyuca de Benitez, near the resort city of Acapulco, on Tuesday. Rios was a correspondent for El Sol of Acapulco and Hernandez edited a local weekly publication.

Rights groups condemned the killings and demanded that they be investigated. Mexico has become extremely dangerous for journalists as drug cartels battle the government and each other, often threatening reporters who attempt to write about the conflict. Raul Plascencia Villanueva, president of the National Human Rights Commission, noted that 61 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000 -- at least 16 in the last year and a half.

-- Tracy Wilkinson in Mexico City