Patrick Timmons/CPJ Guest Blogger
Patrick Timmons is a translator, human rights investigator, and journalist based in the Americas. He edits the Mexican Journalism Translation Project. Follow him on Twitter @patricktimmons.
Unprecedented response to Mexican journalist’s murder
The disappearance and murder in Veracruz from February 5 through 11 of local journalist Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz remains mired in controversy. In mid February, after Jiménez’s murder, a group of journalists traveled to Veracruz and investigated the authorities’ response to the journalist’s killing. On March 19, the group, called Misión de Observación, published…