LatAm Journalists Call on Government to Find Missing Mexican Reporter Fox News Latino
go to original February 11, 2014

Washington Post Update: The body of Mexican journalist Gregorio Jimenez has been found buried in the town of Las Choapas, in eastern Veracruz state.

MEXICO CITY - Officials in the Mexican Gulf state of Veracruz should take action to find missing reporter Gregorio Jimenez de la Cruz and provide members of the media with "the security guarantees necessary to practice their profession," the Latin American Press Association, or Colaper, said.

Colaper, whose members work in 23 countries, said in a statement released in Mexico that the administration of Veracruz Gov. Javier Duarte had a responsibility to protect journalists so they could do their jobs.

Jimenez de la Cruz, a police reporter for the Notisur and Liberal del Sur newspapers, was abducted outside his residence in Villa Allende last week.

It is regrettable "that Mexico is the country with the largest number of journalists murdered due to situations related to their work," Colaper said.

Nine journalists have been murdered in Veracruz in the past decade, Colaper's representatives in Mexico and Veracruz said.

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