Regina Martinez, Mexican Journalist, Found Dead In Xalapa, Veracruz

Journalists embrace each other during a demonstration condemning the alleged murderer of fellow journalist Regina Martinez in Mexico City, Sunday, April 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Authorities in the Mexican state of Veracruz say the body of a journalist with the national newsmagazine Proceso has been found dead inside her home.

The Veracruz Attorney General's Office has released a statement saying Regina Martinez's body was found in the bathroom of her house in Xalapa, Veracruz, and that authorities believe she was murdered.

The statement said that the journalist's body showed signs of "blows to the head and body" and initial evidence suggested she died of asphyxiation.

Martinez was the Xalapa correspondent for Proceso, one of Mexico's oldest and most respected investigative newsmagazines, and often covered drug trafficking in her stories.

The Attorney General's Office said that Veracruz Gov. Javier Duarte had ordered an investigation into her death. She was found on Saturday

Authorities provided no motive for her killing.

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Comments

[madfam004]

12:01 AM on 05/01/2012

It will not surprise me in that she was murder by law enforcement who are also working with the cartels. It is not far fetch, it's reallity. Welcome to the new improved Mexican government.

[bobo5]

10:23 AM on 04/30/2012

Journalism is a dangerous profession.

[BIllyDelyon]

01:23 AM on 04/30/2012

The Cartels are OUT of Control...

Killing anyone for seemingly anything...

[Leon Engelun]

09:34 PM on 04/29/2012

she didn't bad talk anybody did she?

[auntiec72]

05:30 PM on 04/30/2012

And if she did she deserves to be dead ?

[jebusdeveracruz]

11:51 AM on 05/02/2012

she was tracking nexus between veracruz´s former governor Fidel Herrera Beltran and drugs cartel known as the Zetas

[ProRanger7777]

06:21 PM on 04/29/2012

I guess the fact that his hands were tied and he was shot in the back 5 times made them think it might be murder huh?They are a regular Scotland Yard down there boy.

[Fran Jaime]

07:17 PM on 04/30/2012

And your reading skills leave much to be desired. This journalist was a woman.

[ProRanger7777]

07:30 AM on 05/01/2012

My comment just flew right over your head didnt it?

[hertamania]

06:12 PM on 04/29/2012

Don't worry, Mexico is safe, nothing to worry about. HA
I no longer go to that smelly hole. Not sate, fun or clean by any means.

[Kenz300]

04:44 PM on 04/29/2012

For too long the police, business and political corruption in Mexico was tolerated by the public.

Nothing will change until the people of Mexico stand up and demand a government that provides safety, security and jobs for its people.

It is time for the Mexican people to demand more from their leaders. In the past they have chosen to leave rather than improve their country.

[TStringfellow]

07:44 PM on 04/29/2012

Yes, as if it's so simple as "Mexican leaders". U.S. political and business interests have as much, if not more say in Mexico's situation. Ever heard of NAFTA? Plan Merida?

The people of Mexico have been standing up for quite some time, they have one of the most active and resilient civil societies on the planet. The problem is that Uncle Sam and the cronies they're paying off in the Mexican government continually put the profit motive over the interests of the Mexican people.

"Pobre Mexico, tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de Los Estados Unidos" (poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States).

[cvermeulen9]

09:19 PM on 04/29/2012

Then perhaps you should return and get them sorted out. Please tell them we are bad and do not come to America. I ( for one ) would appreciate that.

[Christopher Millsap]

05:23 PM on 04/30/2012

You can't deny the influence of easy weapons coming into Mexico from the USA as a factor, but to lay all blame on Uncle Sam is intellectually void of reality to say the least.

[Snake1994]

02:58 PM on 04/29/2012

47,000 people have been murdered in Mexico in the last 6 years. Oh wait! that was as of last week.

[spinotter11]

09:52 PM on 04/29/2012

For the year 2005, there were 16,692 murders (about 5.6 per 100,000 people) in the United States.
Very clear information at:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/totalstab.htm

So in six years, there would be over 100,000 murders in the USA. More than in Mexico.

[Dodgers1]

02:32 PM on 04/29/2012

We should invite these murderers to America. They can just walk in with no questions asked.

[Iya Sapa Mato]

02:09 PM on 04/29/2012

They believe she was Murdered? In Mexico? No way! It has to be natural or suicide.

[Let Them Eat Dog]

01:49 PM on 04/29/2012

Legalize everything

[ramonbatt]

05:06 PM on 04/29/2012

I am 100% for that.

[ThirdRAILKink]

01:42 PM on 04/29/2012

Let's legalize drugs and allow/encourage our American nighbors south of us to do the same. Prohibition gives power to criminals.

[ramonbatt]

05:04 PM on 04/29/2012

First of all. We need to clean house in Washington. They hold the key to freedom to our nighbors south. I blame Washington for all the killings of innocent people here in the us and south of the border. United States is the #1 buyer of all drugs. They are also #1 in selling waopons to Mexico. The cartel keeps 99% of all drugs sales tax free. War on drugs is no different from the prohibition days. It only make more criminals. If drugs are legalize in the us? Mexico will be free. Also the us. Cartel will take business to else were? War on drugs is just a job security for law inforcement!

[auntiec72]

05:35 PM on 04/30/2012

Yeah your just like the rest who cant take responsibly. IT'S AMERICA THEY ARE THE BAD PEOPLE. GROW-UP ! MEXICO take advantage of the US. So p1ss off !

[chevyliddle]

09:14 PM on 05/01/2012

Do a little research on the drug usage in Mexico. Since the screws have been tightened on the drugs crossing the border into the U.S., the cartels have picked up the slack by selling more to their own people. Per capita, the drug usage is as bad in Mexico as it is in the states.

[jujutsuka]

01:38 PM on 04/29/2012

I used to travel to Mexico quite regularly as a tourist. I have not been there for six years and won't go there again until the country and its leadership take this problem seriously, becoming a part of the soution, not a part of the problem (as the members of Mexican "law enforcement" (LOL) currently are). When the Mexican government sees a serious dent in tourist dollars, it may grease the wheels of change. (Hear that Cancun Cruizers and Spring-Breakers)! I have been going to other, more responsible Central American countries instead, taking my tourist dollars with me.

[Fran Jaime]

07:23 PM on 04/30/2012

Oh gee, you will be missed! I'm sure the other 22 million foreign tourists will in no way make up for your absence.

[Casey90293]

01:18 PM on 04/29/2012

Ay Caramba!

[floridian5555]

01:17 PM on 04/29/2012

cocaine is Americas cup of coffee.

[chevyliddle]

09:17 PM on 05/01/2012

And Mexico's. They do a pretty good job of snorting their fair share down there....and shooting up....and lighting up. You didn't really think that the U.S. is the cartels' only customer....did you?