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Fifth Mexican journalist killed this year

Enrique Villicaña Palomares, a columnist with the Voice of Michoacan newspaper, was reported missing late last week after failing to arrive for a university writing course that he teaches, media reports said. The reporter’s body was found with his throat slit on Saturday in the Michoacan state capital, Morelia , federal prosecutors were quoted by […]

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Mexican journalist killed in surge of drug violence

A Mexican reporter was shot dead on Friday in Mexico following a surge in drug cartel-related violence in the country. Evaristo Pacheco Solís, 33, a reporter for the Mexican weekly Visión Informativa, was found shot dead in Chilpancingo, the state capital of Guerrero, on 12 March.  Costa Rican daily Nuestro Pais reported that 28 people, including drug traffickers […]

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In Veracruz, powers that be have clear message: Don’t mess with us

A well-known investigative journalist who covers organised crime for a nationally renowned news magazine is found beaten and strangled to death in her home. Shocked, the local authorities immediately launch an investigation, exhausting any and all possible leads in order to find out who killed her and why. The national government, alarmed at the implications […]

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Abducted journalist found dead in Mexico

Police found the remains of Radio Linea Directa crime reporter Jose Luis Romero wrapped in a black bag near Los Mochis city, in Sinaloa province, on Saturday. Bullet wounds were found in his head and shoulder, and his hands and leg were broken, news reports said. On 30 December, Romero was abducted at gunpoint from […]

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