Reporter slain in Mexico's Gulf coast[third journalist this month]

Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | Nov. 21, 2006

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ALVARADO, Mexico — A reporter for a weekly investigative crime magazine was toppled from his motorcycle and run over Tuesday by unidentified assailants who then shot him at close range, state authorities said.

Roberto Marcos Garcia, 50, chief reporter for the weekly Testimonio magazine in the port city of Veracruz, was shot four times along a highway on the city's northeast outskirts, the state attorney general's office said.

Police said no arrests had been made.

Garcia had written investigative reports on crimes ranging from drug trafficking and auto theft, as well as the alleged corruption of local officials. The magazine was distributed throughout the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

State Deputy Attorney General Marco Antonio Aguilar said it was too soon to speculate on possible motives for the slaying, but he said that at least two people were involved in Garcia's death.

Garcia was the third journalist killed this month in Mexico: a former general manager of the daily Excelsior newspaper, Jose Manuel Nava, was found stabbed to death, while Misael Tamayo Hernandez, editor of a newspaper in Zihuatanejo, was found dead in a hotel room.

Nava had recently published a book criticizing the federal government, the business community and newspaper employees, while Tamayo was killed a day after running stories about organized crime and corruption in city government. No motive has been officially established in either killing.

[SwinneySwitch]

"Police said no arrests had been made."

[SwinneySwitch]

Ping!

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

So?

[dakine]

The old punch line: "It's a start...."

[csvset]

Garcia had written investigative reports on crimes ranging from drug trafficking and auto theft, as well as the alleged corruption of local officials.

it was too soon to speculate on possible motives for the slaying

Random act of violence ? /s

[Ditter]

Mexico is corrupt and crime ridden,that's why we don't go there anymore.

My best friend moved to Mexico 2 years ago and I have not and will not go and visit her. She says "we live in a very secure neighborhood with guards all over the place, it's safe".

My answer "Helllooooo, if it was safe you wouldn't need guards".

[Plains Drifter]

Any news anchors !!!!!!!!???????

[Xth Legion]

Quick let's pull out of Mexico, it's time to cut and run

/sarcasm off

;-)

[Paleo Conservative]

I think Keith Olberman should be sent there to investigate.

[SwinneySwitch]

¿Qué?

[Rosemont]

It takes a special kind of leadership to F up a country with such natural resources and turn it into a toilet. Fence it off and keep them away.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

¿Qué más esperas con la corrupción que hay en México? ¿Piensas que uno puede meterse en asuntos así y no tiene que sufrir las consecuencias? ¿Qué tiene que lo mataron?

[ASOC]

I would guess at this point it is a tossup on who wacked the guy

the mob
a local politician
the cops

Mexico will forever remain a 3rd world Nation if the cannot control the grifters - Let's not kid ourselves, we have corruption here in the USA, I just think it is under a little better control. In most states anyway.

[SwinneySwitch]

Where is the UN? Where is Amnesty International? Mexico is going to hell in a handbasket!

[dljordan]

This is the country Bush wants to unite us with?

[monday]

"It takes a special kind of leadership to F up a country with such natural resources and turn it into a toilet. Fence it off and keep them away."

Mexico has always been corrupt, but it is drug prohibition that has turned it into a violent copy of prohibition era Chicago. A violence that is soon to be exported to the US.