Luis Martín Sánchez Iñiguez (59 years old), correspondent for the newspaper La Jornada in the Mexican state of Nayarit (northwest), was found lifeless this Saturday after being reported missing, as reported by the newspaper for which he worked.
The newspaper, which cited reports from local authorities, noted that the communicator’s wife, Cecilia López, denounced her whereabouts since Wednesday night, when she was in another town visiting relatives.
The lifeless body of Sánchez Iñiguez was located on Saturday morning in a rural area near Tepic, the capital of Nayarit. He was apparently wrapped in plastic bags and had a message allegedly from criminals on his chest, Nayarit media reported.
Sánchez, the first active journalist assassinated in Mexico in 2023, was at his home on Wednesday night and spoke with his wife by phone.
López said in her complaint that at her home she found the clothes her husband was wearing the last day she saw him and in his bag were all his belongings except the La Jornada correspondent’s card. The family has also reported that “her computer, her cell phone, a hard drive and her sandals are missing,” the newspaper added.
This is the third correspondent for La Jornada murdered in recent years, after the crimes of Miroslava Breach, in Chihuahua in March 2017 (north), and Javier Valdez in Sinaloa (northwest) in May of the same year. This last journalist was an AFP collaborator.
Mexico, considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world to practice the profession, according to RSF. Since the year 2000, more than 150 journalists have been assassinated in Mexico, according to that organization.
According to the Government, only in 2022 there were 13 homicides of reporters and the authorities are investigating whether these events were related to the profession of the victims. The majority of communicator crimes continue in impunity.
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