Elidio Ramos Zárate, also known by his pen name Guillermo Parie, (c. 1971/72 – June 19, 2016), a Mexican crime reporter for the daily newspaper El Sur in Istmo de Tehuantepec, a region within the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, was shot and killed alongside another innocent bystander in the midst of a teachers protest organized by the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación in Juchitán de Zaragoza. Personal Elidio Ramos Zárate was born in Mexico around 1971 or 1972. Police noted that Ramos was a relative of a known figure inside the underworld known as "El Fayo." Career Elidio Ramos Zárate worked for El Sur for 10 years as a crime journalist before he was killed. Ramos worked in a popular genre of sensationalist, tabloid style of crime journalism known in Mexico as nota roja. He was assigned to cover the protest by the CNTE, who were protesting the government. Although he was a known crime reporter in the region, Ramos was not, according to his editor, threatened before he covered the CNTE protests. His editor said, "As a journalist, in this area and in these situations, you are extra exposed. We're not safe from anyone. Sometimes it's the protesters, other times the police, other times criminals, like now." Death The teacher's union CNTE organized protests across Oaxaca to protest against charges against union leaders and education policy changes involving the evaluations of teachers. A day before Ramos was killed, masked men at the protest threatened him, as well as other journalists taking photos of vandals in Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico. The next day, on June 19, 2016, violence between the police and protesters erupted, and, as a result, eight protesters were killed, a bus was burned, more than 100 police and protesters were injured, and over 20 people were arrested. Ramos was photographed multiple times posing in front of a burning bus. The fatal attack on Ramos occurred several hours after he had finished reporting on the main protest site at Asunción Nochixtlán, on a major road that connected Oaxaca to Mexico City, and the burning bus that had been set on fire by the protesters. During the protests, looting and vandalism around the city occurred, and Ramos happened to observe and photograph one of the four OXXO convenience stores looted that day as it was being looted. Elidio Ramos Zárate was shot in the neck by two unknown