The editor of the magazine Jovel from Cristóbal de las Casas and an anchor on XERA – Radio Uno was shot dead in front of his wife and daughters outside their home in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. The gunman fled the scene on a motorcycle, and it is suspected that he had been lying in wait for Arévalo.
Fredy López Arévalo also worked as correspondent in El Salvador and other Central American countries for the national news agency Notimex, the newspaper El Universal and the magazine Panorama Internacional.