Another Reporter Just Got Kidnapped in Mexico's Most Dangerous State for Journalists Oscar Balderas - VICE News
go to original February 8, 2016

Update: Anabel Flores Salaza, Reporter Abducted in Veracruz Found Dead in Puebla (Mexico Voices)

An armed commando carrying heavy weapons and wearing military fatigues broke into the home of Mexican reporter Anabel Flores Salazar at around 2am this Monday and bundled her into a car.

The mother of two small children, Flores covered the police beat for the newspaper El Sol de Orizaba in the central mountainous region of the southern state of Veracruz.

In recent years Veracruz has been the deadliest state for Mexican media workers with 14 killed since 2011, according to the Mexican chapter of the freedom of expression rights group Article 19. These include Rubén Espinoza who was killed in the summer of 2015 in Mexico City where he had gone to take refuge from death threats received in Veracruz.

The state level authorities said on Monday that they launched a search operation for Flores, including checkpoints on major roads in the area, within a couple of hours of the kidnapping.

"The search and rescue protocol was launched as soon as her relatives reported what had happened," Benita González, president of the state commission charged with protecting journalists in Veracruz, told VICE News. "These are the first crucial hours for finding her alive."

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Related: Kidnapped Veracruzan Journalist Linked to Jailed Los Zetas Member (teleSur)

Related: How Veracruz Became the Most Dangerous State in Mexico for Journalists (VICE News)

Related: Mexico Is No. 3 on a Dubious List – Murdered Journalists (Associated Press)

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