The Committee to Protect Journalists says in its latest report published in February that 12 Mexican journalists went missing in 2006-2012 and that in the same period 14 were killed because of their work. Mexico’s human rights commission lists 81 journalists who it says have been killed since 2000.
This undated image released on Thursday, April 25, 2013 by the newspaper Vanguardia de Saltillo shows Vanguardia staff photographer Daniel Martinez Bazaldua.
The assault on Mexico’s journalists continues as the hacked-up body of a photojournalist and and another young man have been found in the northern Mexico city of Saltillo, authorities said Thursday.
Photographer Daniel Martínez Bazaldua, 22, had recently been hired to cover social events for Vanguardia, the paper said in a story in its online edition. Officials identified the other man as Julian Zamora, 23.
Saltillo is in northern Coahuila state, an area where the Zetas drug cartel is active. Another Coahuila newspaper recently announced it would no longer publish stories about drug gangs, after receiving threats apparently signed by a Zetas leader.
State prosecutors said the bodies were found Wednesday in a jumbled pile of severed parts on a street, next to a hand-lettered message that appeared to indicate the Zetas were responsible for the killings.
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