Journalists Juan Francisco Rodríguez Ríos and Maria Elvira Hernández Galeana were killed Monday evening in Coyuca de Benitez, a town located near the resort city of Acapulco in Mexico’s Guerrero state, according to local news reports. Rios worked for the newspaper El Sol de Acupulco and for  Diario Objetivo de Chilpancingo as well as for […]

Mexican journalist Hugo Alfredo Olivera Cartas was found dead on 6 June on the outskirts of Apatzingan, in the state of Michoacán. Police said Olivera, who had been missing since the previous evening, was found inside his pick-up truck at 3 am, with three bullet shots near his left ear and one shot to his […]

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 […]

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 […]