Few Believe Account of Reporter's Slaying, Journalists Demand Investigation Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original February 13, 2014

The granddaughters of slain journalist Gregorio Jimenez walk towards the cemetery in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico on Wednesday. (AP/Felix Marquez)

MEXICO CITY – Journalists in the Mexican Gulf state of Veracruz on Wednesday demanded that officials conduct a full investigation of the murder of newspaper reporter Gregorio Jimenez de la Cruz after authorities said his killing was not linked to his work.

Veracruz Gov. Javier Duarte should carry out “a serious investigation and not rule out his journalistic work” as a motive for the murder, journalist Gregorio Antonio Hernandez, a friend of Jimenez de la Cruz, told MVS radio.

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

The reporter’s body was found on Tuesday along with those of two other men in clandestine graves in the city of Las Choapas, Veracruz Attorney General Amadeo Flores said.

Authorities did not consider the reporting Jimenez de la Cruz had been doing on the wave of kidnappings and murders in Villa de Allende over the past three months in the investigation, Hernandez said.

Reporters in the southern region of Veracruz state, who have to use pseudonyms or sign stories with the publication’s name to avoid being murdered, feel “indignant” and “powerless” due to the violence, Hernandez said.

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