Journalist Found Dead in Mexico

Brittany McGregor
11/27/09 10:11 PM

A journalist was found dead in his home in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico. The man was identified as Jose Roble who worked for Radio Universidad. Roble’s body was found by his co-workers who decided to search his house after he did not show up for work on Wednesday morning. The reporter, who was 43, has suffered a severe contusion and a skull fracture. His body was found with his hands bound and wrapped in a blanket. Roble was considered an excellent reporter among his co-workers and he had won the National Environmental Journalism Prize. The investigators on the case are working it as a homicide but they are trying to determine if it was a robbery as well. Last week my current event was on the fact that the number of journalist murders in Mexico had hit a new record, so it did not surprise me that another journalist was murdered this week. This is very sad. I do not think the government is doing enough to protect those who help get the news out in Mexico. In another article that I had read this week, the president of Mexico said that he is going to stop focusing on crime and is going to start focusing on poverty. I think that is bad idea. Although, poverty may be high there, crime needs to be handled first.

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