3 Mexico journalists slain, dumped in bags in drug gang-plagued Veracruz

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3 Mexico journalists slain, dumped in bags in drug gang-plagued Veracruz​




May 4, 2012 / 6:33 AM / AP

(AP) MEXICO CITY - Three photojournalists who covered the perilous crime beat in the violence-torn eastern Mexico state of Veracruz were found slain and dumped in plastic bags in a canal on Thursday, less than a week after a reporter for an investigative newsmagazine was beaten and strangled in her home in the same state.

Press freedom groups said all three photographers had temporarily fled the state after receiving threats last year. The organizations called for immediate government action to halt a wave of attacks that has killed at least seven current and former reporters and photographers in Veracruz over the last 18 months.

Like most of those slain, the men found Thursday had been among the few journalists left working on crime-related stories in the state. Threats and killings have spawned an atmosphere of terror and self-censorship among the journalists of Veracruz, leaving most local media outlets too intimidated to report on drug-related violence. Social media and blogs are often the only outlets reporting on serious crime.

Mexico has become one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists in recent years, with news people disproportionately targeted as a government offensive against drug cartels and rivalry among crime gangs have brought tens of thousands of killings, kidnappings and extortion cases.

Prosecutions in journalist killings are all but unknown, although it is generally the case with almost all homicides and other serious crimes in Mexico.

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3 Mexico journalists slain, dumped in bags in drug gang-plagued Veracruz

Photographers all previously covered crime in state torn between 2 cartels, where even self-censorship can't save journalists
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A photograph of the suspected killer:
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I didn't know he had gone to work for the JNG Cartel.
 
This is still nowhere near as bad as the horrors that US journalist face. Being disagreed with on Twitter is far, far worst than death, and being told "Learn to Code," amounts to a year of physical and emotional torture for each occurrence.
 
We should Crowdfund a Vacation for every Twitter Journalist to Veracruz..

I don't know why I had that thought, I guess I am just a nice person.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
We should Crowdfund a Vacation for every Twitter Journalist to Veracruz..

I don't know why I had that thought, I guess I am just a nice person.
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They won't kill them just for being there (sadly?). They kill journos who investigate their businesses.

But sure, it's not easy to be a journo with opinions down here. During these two days, a few journos who've criticised a leftist candidate for having links to terrorists suffered a terrorist attack. Funny how is always the people associated with the left who does this shit (narcos fund leftist parties all over LatAm)
 
Tasty Tatty said:
They won't kill them just for being there (sadly?). They kill journos who investigate their businesses.

But sure, it's not easy to be a journo with opinions down here. During these two days, a few journos who've criticised a leftist candidate for having links to terrorists suffered a terrorist attack. Funny how is always the people associated with the left who does this shit (narcos fund leftist parties all over LatAm)
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I mean we can give them some free vacation in mexico shirts that say

"The Cartels are faggots who suck Italian dick for money"
 
They should do a cultural exchange. Send some Mexican reporters to the US so they get to sit on their ass and post on Twitter all day, while their US counterparts are sent to Mexico to write posts like "21 reasons why cartels are rayciss" and then get decapitated.
 
"It's brilliant, what they do. To mutilate a body like that? It makes people think they must've been involved, to deserve such a death like that. It's brilliant, what they do."
 
Must be Tuesday...


This is what no free press looks like, modern "journalists", not being told to write about sports and not Palestine if you work for a sports magazine.....

Badungus Kabungus said:
They should do a cultural exchange. Send some Mexican reporters to the US so they get to sit on their ass and post on Twitter all day, while their US counterparts are sent to Mexico to write posts like "21 reasons why cartels are rayciss" and then get decapitated.
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"You can't do this, I'm the press!" will be written on all their tombstones.... and I'll laugh myself silly.
 
BobbyBriggs69420 said:
Someone send a tip to the NYT that cartels have zero trans employees and won't even consider them for a job.
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This honestly might work lol. Plenty of people in Current Year unironically think and behave like ideological parodies. If they deadass think the middle east is female/lgbt friendly and that chinese communism is good actually, you could do anything. Remember we had a little spurt of progressive tourists who thought insurgents are cute and friendly oppressed brown people and got raped, tortured and murdered for their troubles. The only barrier is they don't actually do anything besides pound on the keyboard and take performative selfies, but maybe the cartel would visit for tea.
 
ExsanguinateHorizon said:
This honestly might work lol. Plenty of people in Current Year unironically think and behave like ideological parodies. If they deadass think the middle east is female/lgbt friendly and that chinese communism is good actually, you could do anything. Remember we had a little spurt of progressive tourists who thought insurgents are cute and friendly oppressed brown people and got raped, tortured and murdered for their troubles. The only barrier is they don't actually do anything besides pound on the keyboard and take performative selfies, but maybe the cartel would visit for tea.
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Agreed. I think its high time Vice returned to its roots of sending reporters to danger zones for in-person investigation.
 
I sure hope no-one creates social media accounts with the same names and profile pics as well known journalists and then starts posting stuff about the cartels. That could be really dangerous.
 
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