Xalapa, Veracruz - Journalists, activists and civil society organizations gathered in downtown Xalapa [capital of Veracruz], as in eleven other cities in Mexico and the United States, to protest, a year after the murder in that city of Regina Martínez, a journalist from the weekly, Proceso.
During the demonstration, they shouted slogans against the Attorney General of the State (PGJE) and remembered Martínez and eight other journalists killed so far during the administration of Governor Javier Duarte of the PRI.
Protesters sprayed red paint at the main entrance of the Palace of Government, while members of the Network of Journalists on the Ground considered the finding that "theft" was the motive for the crime as something that pains and angers the profession.
Marches were held in Xalapa, Coatzacoalcos, Orizaba [all in Veracruz], Mexico City, Guadalajara [Jalisco], Tuxtla Gutiérrez [Chiapas], Oaxaca City, Cuernavaca [Morelos], Chihuahua City and Ciudad Juárez [Chihuahua] and Los Angeles, California.
The weekly Proceso recently published that there are irregularities in the investigation of the murder of its correspondent, and in recent days, Jorge Carrasco, their journalist who has been primarily responsible for assisting in the investigation, has received death threats.
Diana Coq Toscanini, a lawyer who is also assisting in investigations of the homicide, said the PGJE [state prosecutor] has not issued a warrant against José Adrián Rodríguez Domínguez, "El Jarocho", despite his being the main suspect in the case, and she reiterated that the investigation is full of irregularities.
... She also questioned that José Antonio Hernández,
"Silva, the alleged confessed murderer [he was recently convicted] is being held in prison without being allowed to live with the rest of the inmates, without visits and with no medical treatment despite being HIV positive."Toscanini asserted that
"the attorney general is waiting for him to die."She warned that the state government could hinder her work, but she said that doesn't matter and that she
"insists that the investigation of Regina's case is a disgusting piece of work that sadly reveals what our authorities are."Spanish original