Businesswoman who complained about cartel extortion and illegal fishing is shot dead in Mexico
CBSN
A Mexican fisheries industry leader who complained of drug cartel extortion and illegal fishing was shot to death in the northern border state of Baja California, authorities said Tuesday.
Unidentified gunmen killed Minerva Pérez, the head of the state's fishing industry chamber, in what state prosecutor Maria Elena Andrade described as a direct assassination attack that riddled the victim with several gunshot wounds.
The killing Monday in the port city of Ensenada came just hours after Pérez complained of widespread competition from illegal fishing.
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