Another journalist was found dead in northern Mexico on Thursday, the ninth media worker killed in the country so far this year.
Prosecutors in the northern state of Sinaloa said the body of Luis Enrique Ramirez Ramos was found on a dirt road near near junkyard in the state capital, Culiacan.
Ramirez Ramos' news website, "Fuentes Fidedignas," or `Reliable Sources,' said that he had been abducted near his house hours earlier. Prosectors said that he had not been reported missing to police. Fuentes Fidedignas did, however, report on local political disputes, which is often a risky subject for reporters in provincial Mexico, especially in Sinaloa.
Chiquete said he wasn't aware of any more recent threats against his colleague, who also wrote columns for the Sinaloa newspaper El Debate. "What is happening? Humberto Millan and I only write about politicians, and now it turns out that we can't write about politicians either, so what are journalists in Sinaloa going to write about?" he said at the time.
And the president continues his frequent verbal attacks on journalists whose stories he dislikes, calling them "conservatives" and "mercenaries," and using information from supporters -- and apparently tax agencies -- to publicize the income of reporters he dislikes.
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