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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras —The body of Ángel Alfredo Villatoro Rivera, a Honduran journalist for HRN radio, was found late May 15 on the outskirts of the capital a week after he was kidnapped on his way to work. Above, a forensic technician searches for fingerprints on the vehicle used to kidnap the journalist. (Jorge Cabrera/Reuters)
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Mexico: Popular TV host kidnapped and murdered
MONTERREY, Mexico – A popular Mexican television host and two companions were kidnapped and subsequently murdered after they left a local TV station on the evening of March 24, officials said this past weekend.
The body of the host, José Luis Cerda, 33, known as “La Gata,” was found in a Monterrey suburb in the morning of March 25. The bodies of the two companions, Juan Roberto Gómez Meléndez and Luis Emmanuel Ruiz Carrillo, were discovered the same day on a highway outside the city. All three men died of gunshot wounds to the head.
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission reported that 66 journalists have been slain in Mexico since 2000, and a majority of these cases remain unsolved.
[EFE (Mexico), 26/03/2011; Yucatan.com (Mexico), 26/03/2011; Nuevo Dia.com (Mexico), 26/03/2011]
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