Mexico: Body of disappeared journalist found

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 8 January 2007, the body of journalist Guevara Guevara Domínguez, editor and contributor of the digital edition of the U.S. weekly "Siglo XXI", who disappeared on 8 October 2006, was found in the municipality of Ocampo, in the northeastern state of Durango. The body, which was found at the bottom of a ravine, exhibited multiple fractures in the thorax, skull and limbs. Authorities have not yet determined the cause of death, nor the date on which the possible crime may have taken place

The 54-year-old journalist left his home town of Guadalajara on a motorbike on 7 October and headed towards Creel, a town in the state of Chihuahua, where he was going to cover an international motorbike rally.

 
 
Date Posted: 17 January 2007 Last Modified: 17 January 2007