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Morales, a crime photojournalist for the daily Diario de Poza Rica and a freelancer for the newspaper Tribuna Papanteca in the town of Papantla in Veracruz state, was last seen by his wife in the city of Poza Rica, news reports said. He disappeared after telling staff at Diario de Poza Rica that he needed…
The body of Anabel Flores Salazar, a reporter for El Sol de Orizaba who was abducted from her home near the city of Orizaba in Veracruz on February 8, was found the following day in the neighboring state of Puebla, according to a statement from the Veracruz Attorney General’s Office. At least eight armed assailants…
Journalist Manuel Santiago Torres González was shot to death on May 14, 2016, in the city of Poza Rica, in the eastern coastal state of Veracruz. According to local press reports, Torres was shot in the head at around 3 p.m. in Poza Rica’s Cazones neighborhood by an unidentified assailant. He was walking to his…
Pedro Tamayo Rosas, 43, was shot in front of his wife outside their home in the town of Tierra Blanca, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, by unknown assailants on July 20, 2016. He died on the way to a nearby hospital, according to media reports. At the time of the attack, the freelance…
Cabrera, the founder and editorial director of the weekly news magazine, El Gráfico de la Sierra, was attacked by assailants at about 11 p.m. on September 14, while driving near Huauchinango, a city in Puebla approximately 170 kilometers northeast of Mexico City, according to reports. In statements the prosecutor’s office made to media, authorities said…
Veracruz authorities said in a statement on July 2 that they found Mendoza’s body the day before on a highway in Veracruz and that the journalist’s body showed signs that he had been run over by a car. Mendoza was the director and founder of the local news website Escribiendo la Verdad in Medellín de…
Sánchez’s decapitated and dismembered body was found early on January 24 in Veracruz state, according to a statement from the state attorney general’s office. The journalist and owner of the newspaper La Unión had been missing since January 2. On February 5, federal investigators said their DNA tests had confirmed the body was that of…
Saldaña’s body was found alongside an abandoned white pickup truck without license plates at around 3:40 p.m. on May 4 in the municipality of Acatlán de Pérez Figueroa in Oaxaca state, just across the state border of Veracruz where he lived, according to the Oaxaca state attorney general’s office and news reports. He was shot…
Espinosa was found in an apartment with four female victims, and all of them had been shot in the head, authorities said on August 2. One of the victims, Nadia Vera, was a friend of Espinosa’s and a student activist in Xalapa, the Veracruz online publication Plumas Libres reported. Espinosa fled Veracruz state and arrived…