Kidnapped reporter found dead in Mexico

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Kidnapped reporter found dead in Mexico

Associated Press in Mexico City
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 19 May 2012 05.20 BST

The tortured body of a Mexican police reporter has been found on the side of a road in the northern state of Sonora on Friday. A day earlier he had been kidnapped by gunmen while waiting at a car wash.

Marco Antonio Avila Garcia's body was found inside a black plastic bag near the city of Empalme, about 68 miles south of Ciudad Obregon where he was abducted, said Sonora state prosecutors' spokesman Jose Larrinaga.

Larrinaga said police found a message signed by a cartel but would not reveal its content.

The 39-year-old reporter often wrote about organised crime for the sister newspapers Diario Sonora de la Tarde and El Regional of Ciudad Obregon, said Larrinaga.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. He died because he felt the truth should be told, like so many others. This is unforgiveable.

If anyone should die for written material, it should be the propagandists, the professional liars.

How bitterly sad. Unbearable.

[EFerrari]

2. Meanwhile, the somewhat useless Committee to Protect Journalists

tweets out attacks on Rafael Correa and ignores Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia because of political reasons.

I'm going to start tweeting them every single one of these stories. If they have any shame at all, they will have to move.