16 April 2007
Saul Martinez Ortega
Shooting
The body of Saul Martinez Ortega, a journalist who was kidnapped on 16 April in Agua Prieta in the northwestern state of Sonora, was found on 23 April about three hours' drive away in the neighbouring state of Chihuahua.
Forensic experts think he was killed within a few hours of his abduction by a heavily-armed group. Aged 36, Martinez worked for the magazine Interdiario and the Diario de Agua Prieta daily newspaper. He had of late been investigating the abduction and murder of one of his sources, a former Agua Prieta municipal policeman, which occurred a month before his own abduction.
