Mexico - Missing crime reporter found dead in Veracruz state

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened to learn of journalist Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz's death. His body was found with those of two other persons in the town of Las Choapas, in the eastern state of Veracruz, on 11 February, six days after his abduction by an armed group. Although the police and judicial authorities took Jiménez's abduction very seriously, the Veracruz state government lost no time in ruling out the possibility that it might be connected with his work – covering crime (...)

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