Online national news outlet Milenio highlighted a comment from a Mexican government official who stated that Ríos was not the target of the attack in which he died: Journalist Cándido Ríos Vázquez was not the target of the attack in which he and two other people died at a gas station in Hueyapan de Ocampo, Veracruz, said Roberto Campa Cifrian, deputy secretary of the Human Rights of Secretariat of the Interior.
Национальное интернет-СМИ Milenio опубликовало комментарий мексиканского правительственного чиновника, заявившего, что Риос не был целью атаки, в результате которой он погиб: