2023-07-09 00:35:57
Freedom of press
La Jornada journalist killed in Mexico
Luis Martín Sánchez Iñiguez, correspondent for Mexican newspaper La Jornada was found dead on Saturday, the newspaper said.
Posted9 July 2023, 02:35
Already in August 2022, Mexican journalists demonstrated in Acapulco to protest against the murder of one of their colleagues.
Journalist Luis Martín Sánchez Iñiguez, correspondent for the newspaper La Jornada in the state of Nayarit (northwestern Mexico), was found dead on Saturday after being reported missing, announced the newspaper for which he worked.
“A body found in the small town of Huachines (…), in the municipality of Tepic, has been identified as that of Luis Martín Sánchez Iñiguez, 59, correspondent for the newspaper La Jornada,” the daily said on its website. .
The body of Luis Martín Sánchez Iñiguez was found Saturday morning in a rural area near Tepic, the capital of Nayarit state. He was apparently wrapped in plastic bags and had a message on his chest, likely from criminals, according to local media.
The first murder of a working journalist in Mexico in 2023
The newspaper, citing reports from local authorities, said the journalist’s wife, Cecilia López, reported to the prosecutor’s office that she did not know the journalist’s whereabouts since Wednesday evening, when she was in another town to visit relatives. Luis Martín Sánchez Iñiguez Sánchez, the first working journalist to be killed in Mexico in 2023, was at home Wednesday evening and spoke to his wife on the phone.
According to the newspaper, the latter said that she found at home the clothes that her husband was wearing the last day she saw him and in his wallet all his personal effects, with the exception of his La correspondent card. Jornada. The family also reported that “his computer, his mobile phone, a hard drive and his sandals have disappeared”, adds the newspaper.
According to the government, 13 killings of journalists were recorded in 2022 alone, and authorities are investigating whether these events were linked to the victims’ profession. Most crimes against journalists go unpunished.
(AFP)
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