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.

In late February, journalists protest the murder of their colleague, Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz, and other journalists killed in Mexico. (AP/Marco Ugarte)

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…

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