Associated Press, 5/28/2009
Mexico’s top prosecutor on Thursday offered a $380,000 reward for information in the kidnapping and murder of a newspaper reporter who was found beaten and dead in an irrigation canal in northern Mexico this week.
The Attorney General’s Office said it would pay 5 million pesos to anyone providing “true, useful, relevant and opportune” intelligence that helps to identify and detain those involved in the killing of Eliseo Barron Hernandez.
For more information on the perils of journalism in Mexico, read the Mexico Institute’s 2008 report, Journalism Across the Border, by Dolia Estevez.
