Edwin Rivera Paz

Edwin Rivera Paz, (ca. 1989 – July 9, 2017), was an Honduran journalist living in southern Veracruz, Mexico who worked as the lead cameraman for the Honduran television program "Los Verduleros" on Hable Como Habla, who died in Acayucan, Veracruz, Mexico from multiple gunshot wounds from two unidentified assailants on a motorcycle with no known motives in broad daylight. Rivera received several death threats in his home country not long before he was murdered.

In late January 2017, Rivera fled Honduras for Acayucan after his colleague, Padilla, was murdered in San Pedro Sula. While in Acayucan, two unidentified assailants on a motorcycle chased Rivera for several blocks, beat and then repeatedly shot him on the afternoon of July 9, 2017, at approximately 2 in the afternoon. Rivera's half-brother identified his body after the attack. At the time of Rivera's murder, he had been living in southern Veracruz for several months, seeking political asylum to the Mexican Aid Commission To Refugees (COMAR).

Paz was the seventh journalist killed this year in Mexico, where more than 100 reporters have been murdered since 2000. More journalists have been murdered in Veracruz than the rest of Mexico; it is now the deadliest region for media in the Western hemisphere. The situation is almost as dangerous as Rivera's native Honduras, where 69 journalists have been killed since 2003.