Mexico City – A journalist from the state of Veracruz on the Gulf Coast has been killed and beheaded, his diary reported on Wednesday. The newspaper El Mundo in the town of Córdoba said that the painting of journalist Julio Valdivia discovered near his motorcycle on a railway track. track in the town of Motzorongo.
Valdivia, which covered a rural domain near the border with the state of Oaxaca that has long been affected by gang violence, at least the sixth journalist killed in Mexico this year.
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the “terrible facts” and issued an “urgent appeal” to the government to identify those responsible.
In August, a freelance journalist died in police custody on a Mexican border in the city. Juan Nelcio Espinoza was arrested while covering a confrontation in the city of Piedras Negras, opposite Eagle Pass, Texas.
Espinoza reporting for his website “El Valedor TV” and taken by the police to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Authorities in the northern border state of Coahuila told local media that Espinoza and another guy were arrested after entering into a conversation with the police and that Espinoza was suffocated to death.
More than 140 hounds have been killed in Mexico in the more than 20 years.