The Sinaloa prosecutor’s office confirms that the informant’s body was found wrapped in plastic on a dirt road in Culiacán. There are already nine journalists murdered in Mexico since the beginning of the year 2022. The last one, Luis Enrique Ramírez, columnist of the famous newspaper El Debate, whose body was found lifeless and wrapped in plastic on Thursday in the city of Culiacán, in the north of the state of Sinaloa, as confirmed by the state prosecutor’s office.
“Unfortunately, it is confirmed that the body found on a dirt road on the El Ranchito highway is that of journalist Luis Enrique Ramírez Ramos. Our sincere condolences to his family. We are committed to working to clarify this fact,” wrote Sara Bruna Quiñones on Twitter, head of the Attorney General of the State of Sinaloa.
The journalist worked for El Debate and other national media and agencies. In addition, he was the author of two books “The tooth of wisdom” and “The ungovernable”. The journalist has received 14 awards for his journalistic work and created the digital newspaper Fuentes Fidedignas, El Debate noted.
The NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced on Tuesday, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the persistence of violence against journalists in Mexico and warned that murders are on the way to reach record levels this year. Similarly, Mexico has been consolidated as the deadliest country in the world for journalists, according to the World Press Freedom Index presented this week by Reporters Without Borders.
From 2000 to date, the NGO has documented 151 murders of journalists in Mexico, possibly related to their professional work -including Ramírez-. Of the total, 139 are men and 12 are women. Of these, 47 were recorded during the previous term of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) and 32 during the current one of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024).
Mexico: The journalist Luis Enrique murdered
