Mexico - Veracruz journalist's murder underscores need to end impunity

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Regina Martínez, the newsweekly Proceso's respected correspondent in the eastern state of Veracruz, was found strangled in her home in the Veracruz capital of Xalapa on 28 April. She joins the list of 80 journalists killed and 14 disappeared in Mexico in the past decade, a toll exacerbated by the disastrous federal offensive against trafficking during the past five years. Her murder has caused widespread dismay and has prompted (...)

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