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 […]

Less than three weeks after two journalists – a man and his wife – were gunned down in an Internet café in Mexico, a further two reporters have been killed, edging Mexico past Honduras as the world’s most dangerous country for journalists so far in 2010. Marco Aurelio Martinez Tijerina of Montemorelos in Nuevo Leon […]