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MEXICO CITY — In a country where the brutal killings of journalists are almost routine, a recent spree of violent deaths has provoked a rare outpouring of public outrage among reporters and everyday citizens alike in Mexico.

Journalists in dozens of cities across the nation held vigils and demonstrations on Tuesday night, one of the largest mass protests over the murders of media workers in recent years after three of their colleagues were killed this month, two of them just days apart in the same city.

“It’s infuriating, it’s enraging, because journalists always give our soul, our heart, our body,” said Oscar Luna, who worked as a reporter for 10 years and attended a vigil in Mexico City. “From one moment to the next, they take away that passion, that commitment, that love, that dedication that you have toward journalism.”

The killings came in rapid succession.

Alfonso Margarito Martínez Esquivel, a photographer who had worked with local and foreign media outlets, was killed outside his home in broad daylight on Jan. 17 in the border city of Tijuana. Just days later, Lourdes Maldonado López, a veteran broadcast reporter who covered politics and corruption, was shot and killed inside her car, also in Tijuana.