Growing peril for Mexican journalists who dig too deep / Reporting on corruption, drugs, gangs can be fatal

“On Nov. 21, Roberto Marcos Garcia, a 50-year-old crime reporter in the eastern state of Veracruz, was shot dead after being knocked off his motorcycle by a Chrysler PT Cruiser in full view of lunchtime diners at a roadside seafood restaurant on the outskirts of Veracruz city.

“He had received threats, mostly anonymous calls,” said Luis Tiburcio, editor of Testimonio, the weekly magazine where Garcia worked for 14 years covering criminal gangs and drug traffickers. “I don’t know which article triggered this degree of anger. But what’s clear is that these groups of thugs, armed groups, delinquents, whatever you want to call them, are getting stronger and stronger.”"

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