Mexico Journalists' Killings Solved? Critics Doubt It

Mexico Journalists' Killings Solved? Critics Doubt It
Police secure the area where the body of Mexican police reporter Marco Antonio Avila Garcia was found inside a black plastic bag on the side of a road near the city of Empalme, south of Ciudad Obregon, in Sonora state, Mexico, Friday, May 18, 2012. Avila Garcia was abducted by three masked gunmen a day earlier as he waited for his car to be washed in Ciudad Obregon. (AP Photo/El Diario de Sonora)
Police secure the area where the body of Mexican police reporter Marco Antonio Avila Garcia was found inside a black plastic bag on the side of a road near the city of Empalme, south of Ciudad Obregon, in Sonora state, Mexico, Friday, May 18, 2012. Avila Garcia was abducted by three masked gunmen a day earlier as he waited for his car to be washed in Ciudad Obregon. (AP Photo/El Diario de Sonora)

MEXICO CITY — With rare speed, authorities in the violence-plagued coastal state of Veracruz say they have solved the killings of five journalists and news media workers, pinning the slayings on two notorious drug cartels.

But press freedom advocates Thursday questioned what they considered a too facile resolution of one of the most alarming strings of journalism attacks in a country where such bloodshed has become all too familiar.

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