Jesús Adrián Rodríguez Samaniego

Samaniego's murder is still being investigated, but reports stated that there was not any particular threats before the events occurred. El Heraldo de Chihuahua reported that one possible motive for the murder may have been Rodríguez's investigation into the 2013 jailing of two brothers from the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa. As of December 2016, the men were held as suspects in a July 2009 attack on a government convoy that killed two policemen and an official of the federal Social Development Secretariat. Reporters Without Borders ranks Mexico as the deadliest country for journalists in the Western Hemisphere. In addition, since 2000, ARTICLE 19 has documented 100 homicides of journalists, of which 12 were registered in Chihuahua.

Jesús Adrián Rodríguez Samaniego was only one of several journalists who have been murdered in reaction to their job. Since there has already been 12 murders registered in Chihuahua since 2000, the ARTICLE 19 directs the Attorney General of the State of Chihuahua to carry out an impartial, diligent investigation and with strict adherence to legality taking into account as its main line of investigation its journalistic exercise. It also requires the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and the state government of Chihuahua to implement all necessary measures to safeguard the life, liberty and integrity of the journalist's family and ensure the effectiveness of the early warning implemented by both Prevent attacks on journalists in the entity.

Jesús Adrián Rodríguez Samaniego (June 3, 1975 – December 10, 2016) was a Mexican radio journalist for the Antena 102.5 FM and a former crime reporter for the Organización Editorial Mexicana newspaper El Heraldo de Chihuahua, was murdered on December 10, 2016 in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico. Reporters stated a possible motive for the murder may have been Rodríguez's investigation into the 2013 jailing of two brothers from the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa. This case was the 11th murder in Mexico of a journalist in 2016, the year with the highest number recorded.

Samaniego was born in 1975 in Chihuahua, Mexico. Samaniego lived with his girlfriend and his two daughters in the Chihuahua City's Santa Rosa neighborhood.