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 […]

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 […]