Mexico - Crime reporter kidnapped in Sinaloa, investigating police chief murdered hours later

Reporters without borders

The news of the abduction of 40-year-old radio journalist José Luis Romero in the northwestern state of Sinaloa has caused shock and anger in a region notorious for being the preserve of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the country's leading criminal and drug-trafficking syndicates. A crime reporter for the Línea Directa radio station, Romero was out shopping in the city of Los Mochis on 30 December when he was grabbed by gunmen and bundled into a pickup. Jesús Escalante, the head of the police (...)

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