3 journalists slain in Mexico's Veracruz state
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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,[url=http://www.polo-ralphlauren-pascher.fr/]@#$%& @#$%&[/url].
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Mexico has become one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists in recent years, disproportionately targeted as a militarized government offensive against drug cartels and rivalry between criminal groups fuel tens of thousands of killings, kidnappings and extortion.
Prosecutions in journalist killings are all but unknown, as is the case with almost all homicides and other serious crimes in Mexico.
The latest killings came in Boca del Rio, a town near the port city of Veracruz where police found the bodies of four people Thursday after passers by spotted four suspicious black plastic bags in a wastewater canal,[url=http://www.hermesbirkin-bags.us@#$%&/]hermes bags[/url], the Veracruz state Attorney General's Office said. The bodies, pulled from the canal by police boats,[url=http://www.nikeairhuarache.co.uk/]@#$%& huarache[/url], bore signs of torture and had been dismembered, the prosecutor's office said. According to a fellow journalist, who insisted on speaking anonymously out of fear, Luna was in his 20s and had begun his career working for the local newspaper Notiver.
The journalist said Luna was the nephew of victim Gabriel Huge, who was in his early 30s and worked as a photojournalist for Notiver until last summer, when he fled the state soon after two of the paper's reporters were slain in still unsolved killings.
Huge had returned to the state to work as a reporter, but it was not immediately clear what kind of stories he had been covering most recently.
State officials said the third victim was Esteban Rodriguez, who was a photographer for the local newspaper AZ until last summer, when he too quit and fled the state. He later returned,[url=http://www.abercrombie-andfitch.co.uk/]abercrombie and fitch UK[/url], but took up work as a welder. The London based press freedom group Article 19 said he, like the other two, had been a crime photographer.
The fourth victim was Luna's girlfriend, Irasema Becerra, state prosecutors said.
Article 19 said in a report last year that Luna,[url=http://www.truereligionjeansoutlet.us@#$%&/]wholesale true religion[/url], Varela and Rodriguez were among 13 Veracruz journalists who had fled their homes because of crime related threats and official unwillingness to protect them or investigate the danger. The Committee to Protect Journalists said in 2008 that Huge had been detained and beaten by federal police as he tried to cover a fatal auto accident involving officers.
Veracruz is a common route for drugs and migrants coming from the south on the way up to the United States and much of the area around its main port city on the Gulf of Mexico turned in recent years into a battleground between the Zetas and New Generation, a cartel based in the western state of Jalisco and allied with the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which is led by kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
The Zetas are known for their ruthless targeting of anyone perceived as an opponent, and for their deep infiltration of local law enforcement in many Mexican states.
In June 2011, Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco, a columnist and editorial director for Notiver, was shot to death in Veracruz along with his wife and one of his children. Lopez had worked for the weeklies Horizonte and Noticias de Acayucan and for the daily newspaper La Verdad and disappeared three months earlier.
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Lopez was found after a suspect in another case confessed to killing him, but the other two murders have not been resolved.
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"Important news was not covered because it might upset the Zetas. Then these guys were killed and self censorship cracked down even more," O'Connor said. "Almost all of the police beat reporters left town after those killings."
Regina Martinez, a correspondent for the national magazine Proceso, continued to cover crime related stories along with a handful of other journalists, however. They found the reporter dead in her bathtub with signs she had been beaten and strangled.
Veracruznews director Martin Lara said Luna covered crime news for the Internet news agency and described the victim as a peaceful young man and "a good guy,[url=http://www.tiffany-andco@#$%&/]tiffanys[/url]."
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"He got a threat and he had to go," Lara said.
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"Self censorship was extraordinarily strong but whoever killed these journalists wanted more," O'Connor said. "It still wasn't enough to satisfy whoever killed these journalists."

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