A Honduran radio journalist has been found executed , authorities said -- the 22nd journalist to be killed in the nation since 2010 . As he drove to work last week , Alfredo Villatoro Angel was kidnapped by six unknown people traveling in two vehicles , police said . His body was found Tuesday night . `` He had two shots to the head , and his face was covered with a red bandanna , '' Security Ministry spokesman Ivan Mejia said . Dozens of relatives , co-workers and government officials flocked to the morgue in Tegucigalpa in solidarity . Video showed dozens of people crying and holding each other . Villatoro is the latest in what the Committee to Protect Journalists this month called a `` wave of violence and intimidation against journalists . '' According to the media freedom organization , an atmosphere of violence and impunity has made Honduras one of the most dangerous countries for journalists . `` A climate of unrelenting hostility toward Honduran journalists is restricting the flow of news and eroding citizens ' right to information , '' Carlos Lauría , the Committee to Protect Journalists ' senior program coordinator for the Americas , said last week . `` This situation endures because Honduran authorities have yet to take decisive action to enforce the law and guarantee the safety of journalists . '' According to the United Nations , Honduras has the highest homicide rate per capita in the world . Danilo Izaguirre , who was Villatoro 's companion at National Radio Honduras ( HRN by its Spanish initials ) , said journalists will continue their work , despite the message the killers are sending . `` If it ( the message ) is to shut up , I will not be silent . If it is about speaking the truth , we 'll tell the truth anywhere we are located , from any trench , from anywhere , '' he said . President Lobo , who took office in 2010 , urged journalists not to be intimidated and said the government will continue to fight crime . But according to the Committee to Protect Journalists , Lobo 's government has minimized crimes against journalists and has been slow in bringing the killers to justice . According to the country 's Public Ministry , only five cases relating to journalist killings are being processed , and no one has been convicted . `` This is serious , especially the degree of impunity ... in these cases of death and threats against journalists and the media . That tells the world that we have failed in criminal investigations , '' said Andres Pavon , president of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras .
Protect Journalists was found with six gunshot wounds to the head . He is the 22nd journalist killed in Tegucigalpa since last week . Committee to Protect Journalists says killers have found impunity for these crimes .