On Tuesday afternoon, relatives of the reporter and employees of the Veracruz Attorney General's Office, CEAPP and the State Human Rights Commission traveled to the town of Tehuacan, Puebla for the formal identification of Flores Salazar´s body.
"It's a fact. Unfortunately it is the reporter missing since early Monday, and an entourage has gone to Puebla," said an employee of the EGF.The reporter's body was found half-naked in an area of the municipality of Tehuacan, Puebla located just half an hour from Mariano Escobedo where the journalist was "snatched" early Monday. The Puebla Attorney General's Office had issued a statement earlier today in which it announced that the lifeless body of a female person had been located on the Cuacnopalan-Oaxaca highway in the direction of Tehuacan, Puebla. It was located approximately 15 kilometers [9 miles] from the border with Veracruz. With the passing of the hours, it was confirmed that the body was that of Flores Salaza...
Anabel Flores Veracruz becomes the 17th reporter killed so far in the current governorship of Javier Duarte de Ochoa, although in the case of Armando Saldaña of the Ke Buena, Ruben Espinosa of Proceso and Anabel Flores of El Sol de Orizaba have been killed outside the state of Veracruz, but their journalistic work was there.
Yesterday, the Attorney General of Veracruz said in his statement of information that the reporter had possible links to organized crime, especially to a suspect named Victor Osorio Santacruz "The Panther". .....For example, on August 30, 2014, in Acultzingo, she was reported to have been in the company of Santacruz at the time he was arrested by the Mexican Army for probable links with an organized crime group.
In their Tuesday editions, the newspapers El Sol de Orizaba and El Buen Tono distanced themselves from any services provided to them by Flores Salazar as a reporter. El Buen Tono said in its edition on Monday that Flores Salazar was fired eight months ago, when her superiors discovered that she had a new Patriot pickup truck the value of which did not correspond with her wages.
In an unsigned editorial, placed on the front page of its Tuesday edition, the newspaper further distanced itself from the reporter and strengthened the official version of the government of Javier Duarte that the journalist had ties to organized crime.
Yesterday, the Attorney General of Veracruz said in his statement of information that the reporter had possible links to organized crime, especially to a suspect named Victor Osorio Santacruz "The Panther". .....For example, on August 30, 2014, in Acultzingo, she was reported to have been in the company of Santacruz at the time he was arrested by the Mexican Army for probable links with an organized crime group.
In their Tuesday editions, the newspapers El Sol de Orizaba and El Buen Tono distanced themselves from any services provided to them by Flores Salazar as a reporter. El Buen Tono said in its edition on Monday that Flores Salazar was fired eight months ago, when her superiors discovered that she had a new Patriot pickup truck the value of which did not correspond with her wages.
In an unsigned editorial, placed on the front page of its Tuesday edition, the newspaper further distanced itself from the reporter and strengthened the official version of the government of Javier Duarte that the journalist had ties to organized crime.
Meanwhile El Sol de Orizaba, a property of the Mexican Editorial Organization (OEM), where the reporter was working in the police section, said Anabel had been working there barely six months as a freelancer. Spanish original