The Mexican newspaper where a reporter who investigated drug gangs worked until she was murdered has announced it is closing its print edition due to a lack of security.
The director of the Ciudad Juarez-based newspaper, Oscar Cantu, said in an article titled “Adios!” that Miroslava Breach’s slaying led him to reflect on the dangers of practicing journalism in the region, where “high risk is the main ingredient.” Breach, 54, who wrote for the newspapers Norte and La Jornada, was found dead in her vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds to the head on March 23 in Chihuahua, capital of the state of the same name.
Ciudad Juarez, located in Chihuahua on the US border with Texas, was for years one of the bloodiest battlegrounds in Mexico as drug cartels fought over smuggling routes into the United States. Breach reported on organised crime, drug-trafficking and corruption during her 20-year career.
She had recently published a report about a conflict between leaders of the La Linea group, part of the powerful Juarez cartel. Breach is the third reporter murdered in one month in Mexico, the third most dangerous country in the world for journalists
