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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The spree of journalist murders showed no signs of easing in Mexico in 2010, with the killing last Thursday of daily Zócalo Saltillo reporter Valentín Valdés Espinosa in the country’s northeastern state of Coahuila. Unidentified assailants kidnapped, tortured and shot Espinosa several times, and then dumped his body outside a local motel along with a […]