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EL PAÍS joins more than 20 media to give voice to the work of Regina Martínez, the journalist murdered in Veracruz

2020-12-04T17:47:29.559Z


A total of 60 journalists work together in 'The Cartel Project', by Forbidden Stories to verify that "killing the journalist will not kill the story"


Mexican journalist Regina Martínez, a correspondent for

Proceso

magazine

in the State of Veracruz, was murdered at her home in 2012. An international team of colleagues has followed the investigations that Martínez was working on.

The collaboration of 60 reporters from more than 20 international media, including EL PAÍS, coordinated by Forbidden Stories, has resulted in The Cartel Project, an investigation of the global networks of Mexican drug cartels and their political connections around the world. to show that killing press workers does not kill history.

EL PAÍS will start this Sunday, December 6, with some of the investigations into the death of a Mexican journalist, which occurred in 2012 in a state marked by criminal violence by large drug cartels and an environment of political corruption with the local government of the PRI of the Governor Javier Duarte, today in prison.

In Mexico, 119 journalists have been murdered since 2000. Most of these cases are marked by impunity in a country where the resolution of homicides barely reaches 1%.

It is within this framework that the collaborative work of 60 journalists from 25 media in 18 countries becomes important.

The consortium made up of several journalists will resume the work of Martínez that was interrupted by the murder.

Eight years after the crime, colleagues from all over the world followed the leads left open by the Veracruz correspondent of the investigative weekly.

In these works there are links of the Veracruz political class with organized crime, in addition to other findings.

The journalists found that the reporter had made explosive findings months before her death related to thousands of disappeared in the state, the Gulf of Mexico.

To prepare the work for this project, journalists conducted dozens of interviews with witnesses who had not spoken

on the record

, revealing how some authorities had boycotted the investigation.

The Cartel Project brings together the work carried out over 10 months and started in March, in the midst of the pandemic, by international media such as

Le Monde

,

France TV

,

Radio France

,

The Star

,

The Washington Post

,

The Guardian

,

Proceso

,

OCCRP

,

Le Soir

,

KNACK

,

South China Morning Post

,

Süddeutsche Zeitung

,

WDR

,

NDR

,

Die Zeit

,

Haaretz

,

Express

, Swiss radio and television, among others.



Source: elparis

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