A reporter murdered in Guanajuato while covering the discovery of a dismembered body

The journalist Israel Vázquez, from the digital newspaper El Salmantino, in Guanajuato.ISRAEL VAZQUEZ FACEBOOK

Israel Vázquez, a journalist for the digital daily

, in Guanajuato, has been shot to death while covering one of the sordid crimes that the media often wake up to in Mexico.

Vázquez, a 34-year-old young reporter with two small children, arrived first on the boulevard of Villa Salamanca, in Salamanca, where he found the head of a man in a white boat and some bags with human limbs.

According to some journalists from the State, Vázquez was trying to protect the remains, there was also a heart, so that cars would not step on them when he was shot.

"It never happened to us that a reporter was shot like this here in Guanajuato, we have disappeared, and threatened, but this ...", says Jesús Padilla, of the digital am.com.mx.

Vázquez went alone to the scene to report on his mobile phone.

Lately he was always the first to arrive, even before the police, say some colleagues in the area.

He belonged to a family of journalists, two of his brothers, María Paz and Hugo, are also press photographers.

Both worked in

.

Hugo left him a message of encouragement and courage a few hours ago, when he was serious in the hospital.

El Salmantino

issued a statement condemning the "cowardly and atrocious attack" of "dear comrade Israel Vázquez Rangel," while he was carrying out his honorable journalistic work.

Likewise, they demand that all authorities collaborate in the clarification of what happened, something that is not common in Mexico where impunity is almost the general trend.

The municipal government of Salamanca (273,000 inhabitants) has sent a note condemning what happened.

"We deeply regret this event that hurts the entire journalistic union, which daily faces complicated situations when trying to fulfill its task of informing the public."

The statement summons those responsible for the prosecution, the State Government and the federal government to a meeting in Salamanca "to solve the violence that afflicts" the municipality.

And they urge the Guanajuato prosecutor's office to investigate the crime and arrest the culprits.

Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in Latin America and the world for journalists, many of them threatened or with permanent protection.

Others are less lucky.

In the last two years, the score of reporters murdered in the exercise of their profession is about to touch for reasons related to it.

"Israel Vázquez worked with us when he was a kid and he could still party, well, as journalists are," says Jesús Padilla, head of digital am.com.mx, in Guanajuato.

“Then he wanted to finish his studies and from there he jumped to El Salmantino.

His brothers also worked with us, they were photojournalists, family of journalists, well, "he adds.

"He went this morning alone to the area, he used to record with his cell phone, he did not carry cameras," says Padilla.

Reporters Without Borders reproaches on its website the relations between organized crime and the political class, something that for this organization seriously complicates the work carried out by the media.

"Mexico continues to sink into a spiral of impunity and violence, which makes it continue to be the deadliest country in Latin America for the media," they say on its website.

Recently, a television announcer from Ciudad Juárez, Arturo Alba Medina, was assassinated when he was leaving the Studio and returning in his car.

And weeks before, Julio Valdivia, another journalist in Veracruz.

Mexico has many hot areas, but Guanajuato is in recent times one of the most dangerous, with clandestine graves where dozens of bodies of young men and women who die assassinated in a silent war are buried.

Bags with human limbs are a macabre classic in Guanajuato, where this same Sunday others appeared in front of a Catholic temple in Valtierrilla, a community in Salamanca.

And the red note of the medium in which Vázquez worked reports every day of the violence that suffocates this city.