Editor's body found in Mexico

[question everything]

By Susana Hayward
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE

September 11, 2004

MEXICO CITY – The editor of a political magazine who was kidnapped in May apparently has been killed and his body burned – the fourth journalist investigating corruption killed in Mexico this year.

Family members said Leodegario Aguilera Lucas, 60, editor of Political World, was investigating corruption in Guerrero state when he was abducted. Authorities said three suspects confessed this week to kidnapping and shooting him and burning his body. Police said the three are his neighbors and killed him over a land dispute.

Family members said all of Aguilera's documents from his research into allegations that Gov. René Juárez had purchased real estate with government funds had disappeared and voiced suspicions about reports of Aguilera's death.

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Find this article at:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040911/news_1n11mexico.html

[Cha]

1. Just like in Iraq! The Monsters are killing

journalists who want to expose their greed and corruption!!

[Zan_of_Texas]

2. Just like in Russia!

Jailed or poisoned to prevent them from reporting on the recent school siege. At least they are still alive.

Leading Russian journalist 'poisoned'

Chris Tryhorn
Monday September 6, 2004
MediaGuardian UK

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1298488,00.html

Alarm bells are ringing in Russian media circles after the alleged poisoning of Anna Politkovskaya, one of the most outspoken critics of Vladimir Putin's policy on Chechnya, and the apparent sacking of the editor of Izvestia today.

Politkovskaya, who writes for the current affairs magazine Novaya Gazeta, was on her way to the siege in Beslan from Moscow when she collapsed mysteriously.

According to the Moscow Times today, "Politkovskaya was flying from Vnukovo Airport to Rostov-on-Don and fainted on the plane. Immediately after landing, she was taken to a local hospital, where doctors found she had been poisoned, Novaya Gazeta editor Dmitry Muratov told the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists."
Muratov said Politkovskaya had not eaten anything that day and that she felt sick after drinking tea on the plane. He did not speculate on who might have poisoned her. Politkovskaya is now recovering in a Moscow clinic.

Politkovskaya has written repeatedly about Russia's brutal war in Chechnya, much to the fury of the Putin regime. She claims to have seen video footage that shows Chechen prisoners being treated the same way as those in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq but says no Russian TV channel would show it. When her paper published pictures no other papers followed up the story.

more (including her photo)

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This is a lengthy view of Russian media, written by a British paper. Lots of examples of journos being fired right after critical coverage. Lots of examples of journos being expected to be official stenographers rather than investigators.

Sounds somewhat familiar.....

[demosincebirth]

3. The PRI?